Chapter 5 Section 3.Farmers and the Populous Movement.Questions:-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?Mary Elizabeth Leaselived in 1870"smoved to kansas to become a teacherjoined the Farmers Aliancesaid raise more corn and raise less hellHardshipin 1800's enduring hard timesmost crops were failingrailroads taking advantage of farmers by charging excesive pricing for storagesupposed to give out railroad lands to settlers, not businesses which they were doing/would be bad for small town farmer to only have one railroad in small town because charge a lot and not able to use itother farmers threaten to stop using railroad ,so railroad companydrops pricealways in debt, banks forclosingtime outchapter six three is the longest section in the book, which kayley will be talking about tmr.time in.Oliver Hudsen Kelly started the patrons of husbandrygrange-farmers group in dif states to try to combat railroad abuses;around to help farmerscompanies charged poor more than rich to use railroadspopulisn-movement of the peoplepopulist- movement of the people;the farmers wanted to give more powere to the peoplefounded in omaha in 1892wanted to put more money in circulation causing inflationgraduated income tax-based on how much you make, money taken out of your pay goes to governmentdirect election of US Senators-directly elected by the peopleback then. while wealty men would have chosensingle terms for presidentsvp and secret ballet8 hour workdayrestrictions for immagration
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