Industrialization expansion and reform

 

In the latter half of the 19th century, there was wide dissatisfaction among farmers in the United States for a variety of reasons.

Please write a two-page essay from the perspective of an American farmer in the latter half of the 19th century. What are the major issues that are important to you? What sort of solutions do you think should be implemented in order to improve things for you and other farm families. What organizations have helped you?

If you do not write the essay from the perspective of an American farmer of the period, it will be an automatic 7 point deduction.