Industrious Order of Farmers in Term Paper

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The new industrious order developed many more mechanical farming abilities and this helped to drive more farmers out of the fields and into the job market. They began to rely more on bank loans for land and their equipment which put them in debt. If a bad crop season happened the farmer would not be able to pay the bank and would go further into debt until the bank would eventually foreclose on the farm or force the farmer to become a corporate farmer.

1880 U.S. population reaches 50,155,783, with farm population estimated at 22,981,000. Forty-nine percent of all employed persons are farmers, and of those, one in four is a tenant, despite the Homestead Acts. With the development of barbed-wire fencing and windmills, plow farming reaches the Great Plains.
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In 1893 642 banks closed due to a United States economic crisis and more than 16,000 businesses closed. Tens of thousands of small farms closed due to produce prices dropping drastically and quickly.

The farmer became public enemy number one as the public blamed them for the problems with the economy and the banks. They faced anger and adversity as they watched their farms and belongings get auctioned off to people who they used to consider friends. The farmer survived. The farmers worked together buying what they could of each others at auctions and returning them to their owners. They continued to plow and work and toil and the….....

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