HIST 2057 Chapter : History 2057 Textbook Chapter 22
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Like their counterparts laboring in urban factories, they realized social change required. The democratic victory in the 1890 election revealed a deep-seated unrest in the farming. The farm problem and agrarian protest movements communities of the south and the western midwest, as well as in the mining towns of the rocky. The term revolution was used to describe the rapid growth of grassroots support for populism. An acute economic crisis was on the horizon: farmers" debts mounted as crop prices plummeted. demonstrations of power, and power lay in numbers. Bankers, food processors, railroad and grain- elevator operators, as well as the world commodities market, all affected the agricultural sector. So too, did unpredictable factors: droughts, blizzards, insects, and erosion. Farmers" individualism and physical isolation made communications and organization difficult. It was the middle-size landowners were most affected by rapidly rising land values and rising indebtedness.
