Farmer DBQ

847 Corrine Mullins Period 6 February 3,2000 DBQ/ DISCONTENT FARMERS During the span of 1880-1900 farmers began to feel as if their ways of life were being threatened. Farmers felt that a competition with railroads in monopolies and trusts, currency circulation shortage, and the powerful forces of Mother Nature seemed to be putting them in debt or even out of business. However, not all of the currency circulation shortage complaints could be brought up against the government, monopolies, …

…or what they had brought upon themselves. The farmers did have some cause for complaint, but everything can not be controlled, and sometimes there is just no one to blame for things. In the end, The Farmers of America was just a disorganized group of individuals, who had no money, and nothing to show for their hard work. Bibliography I wrote it from the stuff in my noggin. ON the AP test it scored a 4.