October 17‚ 2013 Farmers DBQ In the late nineteenth century‚ twenty years after the Homestead Act‚ farmers used their land in the western plains to produce both crops and profits. The farmers of this time struggled in the agricultural way of life by facing economic and political obstacles that were impossible to avoid‚ requiring them to do something about their complaints. Although the farmers had plausible arguments for most of their criticisms‚ their beliefs of the silver standard and overproduction
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had a huge growth spurt and agricultural began to decline. This made it harder for farmers to make a living. Document G shows how much manufacturing increased between the years 1849 – 1899. America could no longer aspire to be a nation of small freehold farms. Manufacturers and people living in big cities depended on farmers to pretty much keep them alive. Many people didn’t realize how much of an affect farmers had on their everyday lives. If you took farms away from the United States during this
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The peasant revolts in late 1524 were constructed by peasants‚ craftsmen‚ and poor soldiers. Although the cause of these peasant revolts were constant‚ there are several responses from the German states. Some German’s saw the attacks as too intense‚ others such as nobles viewed the revolts as devious‚ and others including the pastors and people with religious beliefs related the revolts to god’s will. The documents mostly overlooking the ruthlessness of the attacks came from Martin Luther
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From 1880-1906‚ western farmers were affected by multiple issues that they saw as threats to their way of life. The main threats to the farmers were railroads‚ trusts‚ and the government‚ because these institutions all had the power to drastically affect the ability of the farmers to make profits. Therefore‚ the farmers were not wrong to feel frustration toward those institutions when the institutions caused the farmers to live lives of increasingly extreme poverty. The main source of agrarian
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Positive and Negative Effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution began in the 1700’s in various countries such as England‚ China‚ and Japan. This Revolution had different positive and negative effects depending on your place in society and your livelihood. The Industrial Revolution altered the way we live today; the main effects‚ having both positive and negative outcomes‚ were child labor‚ general comfort‚ and the state of the cities. During the Industrial Revolution‚
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Kayla Dixon Gilpin Unit #13 DBQ 1 April 2014 During the late 1960’s and the early 1970’s‚ domestic and foreign issues grew for the United States. Nixon’s presidency began in the midst of the Cold War and the Vietnam War. His policy for war was peace by gradually pulling American troops out of the countries they were stationed in. Domestic challenges such as inflation‚ the Civil Rights Movement‚ and eventually the Watergate Scandal received similar solutions. Nixon established many policies
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The peasants’ revolts in sixteenth century Germany were very historically significant. As such‚ many groups had different perspectives on the causes of the revolts as well as different responses to them. The peasants themselves cited as the cause many of the ideas brought about through the Protestant reformation: individual rights and the godliness and equality of all people. However‚ many nobles and government officials saw these as acts of the peasants’ own stupidity and vengeful nature. As for
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In the late nineteenth century shortly after the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ farmers in the Midwestern United States found themselves in quite a predicament. During the second industrial revolution of the United States that contained mass introduction of: railroads‚ oil‚ steel‚ and electricity‚ the risk-taking entrepreneurs of this era took an adventure into the world of cutthroat capitalism. In just a little time‚ a handful of monopolies arose in all these industries which hurt both the consumer
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Laura Buckner Ms. Wood APUSH 1 September 2014 Why Revolt? The colonists had endured much turmoil before the 1770s. Colonists had to fight the Native Americans and Spanish for their land. Furthermore‚ there was the French and Indian War in which the colonists joined forces for the first time to defeat the French and Native Americans for their land. It was during this time that the colonists learned that if they worked together‚ they were capable of achieving things on their own‚ without the help
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to take out more loans‚ which thrust them into a spiraling debt (Document B). As seen in The Farmers Grievances‚ a skillful farmer‚ compared to his physicist or tailor counterparts would never terminate his financial troubles; and in contrast to other professions‚ advancements and pioneering in the farming field only dug the financial pit deeper (Document A). Many of the financial troubles faced by farmers portrayed them to be not the indispensible feeding hand of America‚ but perhaps just the opposite
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