Lapsanky           9        Textbook (Traditional Economy)

• Middle and Southern colonies rasied rice on coastal palntions and cattle on farms in the backcountry.
• The plantations relied on the labor of enslaved Africans.

Lapsansky          197        Textbook( Traditional Economy)

• The Framer of the West and the South were willing to accept the difficulties of life.
• Poor Farmer small landholdeers and urban worker
• They recevied low prices for their crops
• They had to pay high costs for transpotation.

Lapsansky          198        Textbook( Traditional Economy)

• 1890s farmers faced drought, poor harvests, debt and a drop in the price of wheat, barley and other crops
• Farming was the highest calling on the earth.
• Ambitious goal, farmers were a discontented group during the late 1800
• The grovernment support that farmer sought was slow in coming.
• Farm reform was not a primary concern for most lawmarkers.

Lapsansky       198    Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• A farmer plows throught hard soil.
• Planting crops on tought prairies soil was hard work for this couple on their farm in Nebraska.
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Lapsanky         199    Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• It was costing farmers more to produce corn than they could get by selling it.
• The more crops farmers produced the more prices declined.
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Lapsanky         199    Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• It was costing farmers more to produce corn than they could get by selling it.
• The more crops farmers produced the more prices declined.
• Machinery livestock and other need farmers went into debt
• They no longer owned the farm where they worked.

Lapsansky       199       Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• Framers blamed big business the railroads and the banks for their difficulties.
• Farmers black sharecroppers, faced the added problem of having to deal with dishonest merchants and landlords who paid less for crops and charged more supplies than promised
• Farmers grew angry because they felt the nation had turned its back on them
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Lapsansky        199   Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• Farmer refused to accept these circumstances
• Farmer network first in Midwest and then in the South and West to address their problems.
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Lapsnaky    109   Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• 1880s business mergers created powerful empires for those who invested in steel, railroads meat farm equipment sugar, lumber and a number of other enterprise
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Lapsnaky    109   Textbook(Traditional Economy)

• 1880s business mergers created powerful empires for those who invested in steel, railroads meat farm equipment sugar, lumber and a number of other enterprise
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