Because the government forced them to leave and to sell their property to the railroad company. This displaced them, and they had to find somewhere else to farm and live. The land that they were on was what they lived off of: they had nothing else, unlike today.
They were being charged too much to ship their crops.
Farmers were shipping their crops by railroad and the railroads could rip them off.
because they were worth 2-4 million, which was enought for the farmers to buy.
They were called Sodbusters. In the open Plains they lacked trees so they used sod to build their homes
A problom that farmers faced during the last half of the 19Th century was cheating wifes.
I can give you one, barbed wire. It hepled people keep their livestock from running away.
a tight money supply high prices for new equipment falling prices for their crops
Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
Farmers, miners, cowboys, single women, Railroad workers, freemen, and ranchers
On the great plains, the homes of settlers were called homesteads. These types of people were farmers, cowboys, miners and railroad workers. Also ranchers and single workers settled here.
The nickname for plains farmers is okies.
Cattle farming was too expensive, so many farmers moved out to the Plains for crop farming. There they had trouble with high interest in the banks, unfair railroad fees, and overproduction from other farmers.
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