History of the United States

It gave farmers a way to organize for better crop prices.
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middle class whites

The system kept many farmers in debt to merchants and banks.

. If they could not collect what they were owed, they went out of business.

they hoped these crops would bring more money.

The government was willing to use force to end strikes

The leader Booker T. Washington turned the Tuskegee institute into a model school.

Lynch mobs mostly targeted young black men for perceived slights.

They faced threats and violence.

Large apartment buildings that were often loud, dirty, and crowded were called tenements.

Ida B Wells was threatened by Southerners when she defended victims of lynchings.