Farmers In The 1790s Essay

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In the 1790’s, 90% of the American population were farmers. The difficulties these farmers faced were very challenging. After the Revolutionary War the government incurred an enormous amount of debt that needed to be paid back in order for our country to remain independent and creditable. Since our government was a weak central government it had no way of collecting taxes from the states and no money to pay back to the creditors. After the new government was formed it had the power to tax the states so the states taxed the people who lived there. The farmers had several rebellions to stand against the government in protest of the taxes and not being able to pay the taxes since there was no money in circulation. Having no money to pay…show more content…
After losing their farms, farmers had to move west of the Appellation Mountains; the further west the farmers moved the less they were represented in the government. The farmers felt since they fought in combat that they needed to be represented on the issues that were important to them. Most of the time, the person representing the people was for other issuers that were not as important to the farmers. The farmers also felt as if their liberties were not being met. Since the farmers fought in the war the assumed that their liberties would be engaged better than they were. The farmers thought that they would always have their land and their homes since that was what was promised in the Constitution. They did not realize that the government would take their homes and everything they owned in order to pay a debt that the government had created. Several of the farmers set up rebellions in order to get the government to change. Needless to say none of the rebellions seemed to work the only thing the rebellions did was to make sure the elite got what they wanted written in the constitution and to make sure the elite were taken care of in the future. Our government today is still set up in this manner you have to protect the rich in order for the poor to make any money at
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