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.
no farmers werent successful
No
Hold on to political and economic power.
Hold on to political and economic power.
Hold on to political and economic power.
To hold on Political and Economic Power
Hold on to political and economic power.
Farmers formed cooperatives, interest groups, and political parties to protest their declining fortunes and to increase their political and economic power. The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s. One of its goals was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers after the Civil War. As an economic movement, the Alliance had very limited and a short term success.
The planters were the ones who controlled the economic and political life of the southern colonies. OK but my answer are farmers merchants plantation owners teachers help me
To regulate railroad shipping rates.
That most sharecroppers and farmers where hurt because of the union blocking of there trade by land and sea.
The National Grange