The farmers fought against the Gold Standard, railroads, and industrialist during this period causing lots of confrontation. In document G you can see the increase rate of manufacturing corporations and the steady decline of the agricultural market. The United States could no longer wish to be a country of small estate farms. Industrialists and the people living in immense cities depended on farmers to basically keep them alive throughout the years. However, back then numerous people didn’t comprehend just how much of an impact farmers had on their everyday lives.
The expansion of U.S agriculture that had taken place during the war time efforts led to overproduction and as a result there was too much food available in the US market. This made it increasingly difficult for farmers to sell their produce and many struggled to keep their farms running. With huge quantities of produce and little profit to be made from the selling of it farmers increased their spending in the hopes of producing more crops to sell, so they could make more profits. However this plan backfired on many farmers and they plummeted into huge debts that many couldn't afford to repay and as a result
The farming population were seen to be the largest group of victims as the ‘domestic market was saturated’ with livestock and they found themselves fall dramatically into debt. It was also seen to be a challenging time for women, as ‘being a new woman meant new burdens, not new opportunities’ and for many it was seen as a period of great contradictions. Therefore, the aforementioned examples alongside mass industry and the influx of immigrants are all key issues which need to be examined when deciding whether the boom was in fact exaggerated. When discussing whether the prosperity of this period was overstated, specific areas of the economy need to be analysed, for example the farming and agricultural sector which Butler suggests that, ‘…although America’s industry seemed to be thriving, its agriculture sector, still a large part of its population and economy, was in trouble’. This is a strong and relevant argument to include and Butler adds further weight to his assessment by making good use of statistics to support his judgments.
Working conditions were harsh for the American industrial worker in the 1800s. With the boom of the Second Industrial Revolution and the need to expand business to meet consumer demands, employment opportunities opened at a rapid rate. In order to maximize profits, however, workers were given very few luxuries. Most factories had deplorable working conditions and were unsafe. Many workers lost hearing from loud machinery, lost limbs in hazardous equipment, and even lost their life due to the apathy of factory owners.
The disease impacted the peasants more than any other class. This also caused a shortage of workers to work the land and harvest crops so that they could be ready for sale. These workers were the ones who lived in poor conditions where the disease was abundant in turn caused wages to go up and demand for workers to go up as well. The land
Adam McPherson Mrs. Wheelock Advanced English Humanities 20 March 2012 Black Death’s Curse on Europe “Famines and plague, especially the Black (Bubonic) Plague thinned the population of Europe” (Wheelock). Europe was deeply affected by many diseases during the Middle Ages. As the Black Plague rushed through Europe it also affected the people’s everyday activities, the economy, and the European people’s moral from all the death, which can also be explained from Jeffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. With the Black Plague rampant all over Europe it caused many people to stop doing their everyday activities that they enjoyed. The knights son the Squire was a very active man.
In this case, raising the minimum wage has increased employment. So who’s right? The debate actually centers on how to best help the unskilled, the low skilled, the poor and the near poor out of the abyss of poverty. Increasing minimum wage not only may fail to help those people but also actually hurt them. With that being said, while a minimum wage increase may lift some families out of poverty, they push even more families into poverty as employers try to control cost by eliminating jobs, displacing low skilled adults for more productive employees or shaving work schedules.
In the early 1890’s farmers, ranchers and other country folk started having huge issues. They were growing more crop supply than what was demanded by population. These farmers and ranchers would try to sell their food and they would not make enough because there were only so many people, and a whole lot more farms. The farmers and ranchers would end up needing to borrow. The only other option was to find specialized loans so they could
ENGLISH COLONIAL EXPANSION Sixteenth-century England was a tumultuous place. Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food, many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep. This led to a food shortage; at the same time, many agricultural workers lost their jobs. The 16th century was also the age of mercantilism, an extremely competitive economic philosophy that pushed European nations to acquire as many colonies as they could. As a result, for the most part, the English colonies in North America were business ventures.
The Populist movements formation The rise of populism perpetuated from two issues that were dramatically affecting the lives of western farmers. Firstly, was debt that had engulfed most farmers who were adjusting to a new form of farming under dry conditions along the legal form of sharecropping, secondly was the social isolation due increasing farm size. Out of depression farmers formed social groups where talk of hardship took main stage. The late 19th century was seeing its largest formation of industrialization in the history of the nation and subsequently farmers were caught in trammels between the increase in costs and shrinking prices of goods. As a result, currency became a main focus along with increasing railroad rates and tariffs.