Helping or Hurting the Farmers?
By: Mary Archer Boyd
Homestead Act
Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US. This help they farmer get there crops places.
Farmers Alliances and Granges
Farmers made a organized agrarian economic movement to stop high shipping prices. Granges pool their resources in order to purchase machinery and supplies. This help the farmers because they work together and fought high shipping prices.
High Railroad Shipping Costs
This was not helpful to the farmers, high shipping prices eventually caused them to borrow money and this left them in debt.
Bimetalism
It was system that combined sliver and gold evenly. This would help farmers and others who had too much debt.
Interstate Commerce Commission
This regulated railroad rates, among other things. This help because it regulated railroads rates.