Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century(1880-1900)saw as threats to their way of life.(a)explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and(b)evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints. In the late 1800s, many farmers were trapped in a vicious economic cycle. Crops prices began falling and farmers were often forced into mortgaging their farms so they could buy more land and produce more …
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…increase in supply of greenbacks with the addition of unlimited coinage of silver, which was partly accepted with the passage of the Bland-Allison Act in 1878, adding two to four million to the silver supply each month. The issue of the farmer's debt stuck around, however, as railroads took their bite accordingly, suffocating farmers with high transportation pricing. Reform had been inevitable at this rate as farmers had no way of rising from the vicious cycle.