So this meant peasants didn’t get a lot of land, which became more of a problem because to aid industrialisation, a policy of export and starve was introduced. This meant that peasants had to sell as much grain as possible to survive, which although increased exports enormously, caused many peasants to starve and live in terrible conditions. This caused peasant’s standard of living to decrease and because export and starve was a government policy, some began to oppose the tsarist regime. Many peasants moved to cities and became workers. These workers were also crippled but enlightened by industrialisation meaning that again opposition increased.
Hyperinflation happened because Germany owed so much money due to reparations of the war, it simply thought that it would just be able to print more money, but when a government prints money that it does not have the value of money decreases and prices go up. In Germany this was a huge problem as inflation was rising at astonishing rates and the effects were disastrous. Many people that had worked hard are there lives were forced to become beggars as the pensions and savings lost all value. The people that had jobs were still in disastrous positions, as their wages could not keep up with the increasing rate of inflation. People were not blaming the Kaisers war government but instead they were blaming the Weimar government, as they were the ones that had agreed to pay the war reparations in the treaty of Versailles.
There was also a lot of conflict between trade unions and employers, with strikes and lock-outs frequent. Finally, the agricultural sector of the economy did not share in the general prosperity with food prices remaining low and farmers’ feeling abandoned by the government. All of these factors meant that the Government were spending more than they were receiving and that this ‘boom’ did not affect all parts of society, showing that these were not golden years for Germany. The German Political situation at home also appeared to be good. There were no more attempted revolutions and voting figures showed that extremist parties, such as the KPD were losing
However, most of these technological innovations were not within the grasp of the average farmer; only wealthy farmers could afford to own things such as the wheat harvester and the number of horses it took to pull it (Document D). Railroads extended throughout the United States and connected the East and Western markets (Document B), but farmers did not make good profits because of the high railroad rates that were in effect. Even though farmers fought for and were successful in establishing limited freight rates (Document C), they still had to deal with many other problems. Due to overproduction, farmers everywhere suffered from the decrease of their crop prices (Document A). All of these technological advances were made with the intention of helping farmers and improving their working conditions, but instead, they backfired and made things even worse than before.
These farmers complained that these railroad companies were charging a high rate to have the goods shipped and that they would only offer favorable rates to wealthy northeastern industrialists at the farmers’ expense. These railroad companies had a tight hold on the Transportation of crops shipped from small farm towns; subsequently farmers were forced to suffer with below average service and sky high shipping tariffs. The smaller farmers were unable to carry on due to, the bigger companies and consequently were put out of business. The government’s decisions and their policies made it extremely difficult for the American farmer to profit and grow; the Homestead Act was a prime
The Fordney McCumber Tariff of 1922 was a law introduced in the United States with the purpose to protect American farms and factories from foreign exports. The tariff however only made the situation that farmers were already facing worse. The tariffs meant that foreign exports to the United States were extremely expensive and therefore if Americans opted not to buy foreign goods the Foreigners would make less money from their foreign exports and therefore have less money to spend on U.S food. The result of this was a severe agricultural crisis faced by farmers across the American
One of the key reasons Alexander II emancipated the Serfs was due to the fact that he wanted to improve the economy, which was struggling. He did manage to improve the economy in some ways; however the significant problems in the national economy caused by the Emancipation, meant that any positives were not felt to an extent at which they should have been. Firstly, there was a decline in labour services, which contributed to the growth of a money based economy and encouraged enterprise, stimulating growth of railways, banking, industry and cities. There was also an increase in production of grain, which meant that Russia’s exports were increasing pumping money into the economy. However this increase in exports was limited and did not increase at a significant extent, due to the fact that agriculture was still very backward.
He raised the taxes of peasants. The reason for this action was simply because the majority of the population were peasants (82%) and they were not contributing anything to the economy. This was one of the reasons why Russia was economically behind from the rest of Europe. This was a problem for the peasants as they were very poor, and most were unable to pay off the debts they had already owned when they had emancipated. Therefore, paying higher taxes was another struggle for the peasants and their lives had just got harder.
Charles I wanted to have more money, but the Parliament would not give it to him. Charles I disbanded Parliament because they did not trust him, all he wanted was money but he was to poor. So because of this he ignored Parliament and began to tax people. No one liked this at all because it was unfair that he was taxing everyone for his own benefit, and to help the wars. He needed the money for the wars because Parliament refused to help
In the novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, the land is often seized from farmers because they cannot afford to keep it due to a bad harvest season. The land is seized because of the Great Depression. The dirt has all of its nutrients stripped away because of the Dust Bowl, making it difficult for the farmers to harvest valuable crops to pay rent to their landowners. Losing the land makes the farmers depressed and desperate for the emotion the land brought them because they are emotionally attached to it since they have built their lives and families off of it even though they rent it. When the land lets farmers down, by not producing much crop because of conditions, they get disappointed as their land gets taken away, but farmers still lust to have an emotional attachment with the land.