How did farmers respond to the farmers alliances?

Answer 1

Farmers formed cooperatives, interest groups, and political parties to protest their declining fortunes and to increase their political and economic power. The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s. One of its goals was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers after the Civil War.

As an economic movement, the Alliance had very limited and a short term success.