no farmers werent successful in bringing about political and economical change because they had experienced a huge crisis that sone critics blamed on shortage of gold. and the failure of several major railroad companies also contributed to the economic problems.
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They allowed farmers to band together against railroads and business interests
To unite the farmers to fight for political reform, first targeting railroad rates.
Farmers had political power
it gave farmers a way to organize for better crop prices.
Before the Civil War the North was the more industrialized region, and this continued after the war. The North became more urban. The South, where most of the fighting occurred, slowly reconstructed itself in the face of Northern economic and political discrimination, and adopted an almost-feudal agricultural economy consisting of small farmers, share croppers and tenant farmers.