What caused the farmers protest movement?

Question

what were the causes of the farmers protest movement otherwise knows ast the alliance or populist movement? Thanks

What caused the farmers protest movements in the United States during the 1870's, basically what was the cause of them protesting?

Answer 1

The farmers began to get tired of overproduction leading to extremely low prices for their crops. The number of farms jumped in this time period as more land became available to work. Because there were so many other farms producing, farmers had to grow more and more crops to sell just to turn enough profit to survive. As a result of all of these farmers producing at full capacity, crops were overproduced and made prices plummet.
These farmers were also seriously in debt as a result of deflation, and because they couldn't make enough money many lost their land.
They banded together in The Farmer's Alliance to cut out middlemen in selling crops, to turn a better profit. The also tried to boycott the railroad, trying to get legislation to regulate the railroads (monopolies) and in some cases were successful, causing railroads to compete for business.
However the movement was economic and its main agendas were to change the gold standard to a silver standard to create inflation which they thought would solve their debt problems.
The Farmer's Alliance never really caused any huge economic changes directly, however many of its reforms were eventually realized.

Answer 2

Overly demanding corn. They just weren't going to take it anymore.

Answer 3

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