Farmers are discontented
Role in society is changing
Mass exodus from rural areas to urban areas
Exceptionally high mortgages
Homestead Act provides insufficient land
Need to take out more mortgages to get more land
High debt
Machines expensive
Environmental issues
Locusts
Dependent on a world market
Prices for goods were very low
Railroads
Dictated time tables and price of shipping
Railroads gave discounts to industrialist that made RR materials
Kickbacks to gov. officials
Farmers band together in Populist party
Small rural areas had granges
Community centers
Would discuss RR prices
Mund v. Illinois
1880's: Farmers Alliance
Grain silo
Subdivided into regions
Helps regulate supply and demand
Creates Populist Party
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