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Was the grange movement a product of populism?
In the 1870s, US farmer's wives and their husbands joined the Patrons of Husbandry, the Grange, which sponsored dances,fairs, and lecturers who talked on just about any subject. It was a social organization for farmers. In the 1880s, new groups like the Grange mushroomed all over the nation. The largest became the Southern Alliance. Both the Grange and the Alliance were supposed to be nonpolitical and were dedicated to taking women from their "enslaved role" into full participation in the agrarian movement with men. The Grange soon began to get political. It attacked the railroads for exploiting farmers, and elected politicians sympathetic to farmers who worked to regulate fares. The Supreme Court struck down the "Granger Laws" which were used to regulate the railroads, and the Grange and Alliance fell apart. Co-ops began to take the place of the Grange, and began to operated on a nonprofit basis, allowing farmers to pool their resources to purchase items more cheaply and to operate Credit Unions (membership of farmers) that acted like banks but more sympathetic to the farmers plight.
Was the Grange successful?
1. The Grange was organized in 1867 and led by Oliver H. Kelley. The Grange was for the most part successful. It enhanced the lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities. It gradually raised farmers goals from individual self improvement to improvement of the farmers plight. It helped to regulate railroad fees and set up stores for farmers to sell goods in. However a number of granger laws were badly drawn and their influence faded.
What was the purpose of The Grange?
In the 1870s, US farmer's wives and their husbands joined the Patrons of Husbandry, the Grange, which sponsored dances, fairs and lecturers who talked on just about any subject. It was a social organization for farmers. In the 1880s, new groups like the Grange mushroomed all over the nation. The largest became the Southern Alliance. Both the Grange and the Alliance were supposed to be non-political and were dedicated to taking women from their "enslaved role" into full participation in the agrarian movement with men. The Grange soon began to get political. It attacked the railroads for exploiting farmers, and elected politicians sympathetic to farmers who worked to regulate fares. The Supreme Court struck down the "Granger Laws" which were used to regulate the railroads, and the Grange and Alliance fell apart. Co-ops began to take the place of the Grange, and began to operated on a nonprofit basis, allowing farmers to pool their resources to purchase items more cheaply and to operate Credit Unions (membership of farmers) that acted like banks but more sympathetic to the farmers plight.
Which factor contributed to the plight of farmers?
Many factors contribute to the plight of farmers including weather, insect populations, and seed pricing. The pricing of other commodities including fertilizer and gasoline can also contribute to the plight of farmers.
What caused the farmers plight in the late nineteenth century and how did farmers propose to resolve these problems?
The economic depression caused the farmers plight in the late nineteenth century. This had caused them to pay excessive shipping and storage prices. The farmers proposed to resolve these problems by taking control of the government so as to regulate these prices.
The plight of American farmers during the depression was magnified by?
a. devastating droughts and dust storms throughout the 1930s.
How did the administration of Theodore roosevelt respond to the farmers plight?
Anti-trust used to break up big railroads
What American literary movement stressed the use of minute detail and focused on the plight of the lower classes?
romanticism
How did banks contribute to the farmers plight?
If you mean in America, banks contributed to the farmer's plight by demanding payment for the investments they made for the mortgages of the farmers. The problem was that the price of crops dropped significantly during the nineteenth century, so farmers needed to work ridiculously hard to gather enough crops to pay off their creditors while the currency deflated, meaning there would be less money around for them to use in the first place.
Did farmers suffer financial hardship in the 1920s?
Actually you'll find the farmers that hadn't mechanized there farms or if their farms were relatively small, they suffered a terrible hardship because of many reasons like the fact that some over produced things so the prices went down and they got paid less. So many had to sell their farms to pay off debts or the like.
A sentence for plight?
He grabbed his pen and wrote down his plight. There was a small plight with the engine. The mom cleaned the plight on the young girl's knee.
Sentence for plight?
I give a plight to vote
