Essays Tagged: "western farmers"
Economic Prosperity and decline in Canada.
ian Producers felldramatically. Because of the huge war debts of Europeans countries, which hurtthe western farmers badly, there was simply no market for Canadian goods. So theCanadians (about a milli ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
The Great Gatsby Character Summaries
of the novel, documenting his companions exploits in the summer of 1922. Raised in a wealthymiddle-western family, Nick graduates from New Haven, the college he attended with Tom Buchanan. After serv ... cond half of the novel.Jay Gatsby: The invented identity of James Gatz, born the son of poor middle-western farmers, Gatsby "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself" (104). Gatsby's beginnings ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Populist Ideas Continue into the 1900's
It was 1892 and the American Western farmers were facing more suffering from deflation. With the railroads holding most of the go ... ms that the two groups addressed were essentially the same.The Populist Party was composed of white western farmers while the Progressive Coalition was mostly made up of reformers from the white urban ... ers, i.e. large shippers, and charge discriminatory rates. The rebates were extremely unfair to the western farmers because they tended to be smaller shippers. The western farmers were in debt and had ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
President Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
tate Commerce Commission was created as a result of the tensions against the railroad industry. The western farmers were the driving force behind much of the discontent because they believed the railr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
DBQ Jackson
y and the value of community.Andrew Jackson's election in 1828 signaled the rise of the common man. Western farmers and eastern workers mainly elected him thinking that Jackson would support them. Dur ... extent, become a broker, by which merchants in the New England area became wealthy; however, to the western speculators the bank became the "moneyed monster," for they had borrowed a great deal of mon ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Farmers' Grievances
The Farmers' GrievancesIt is historian John D. Hicks' thesis that the Southern and Western farmers suffered greatly in the new industrial system and blamed their suffering on the rail ... ads, the trusts and low prices, the money-lenders and the bankers, and the money and banking system.Western farmers blamed many of their troubles upon the railroads, which sent all western crops to th ... ter proved that farming was carried at an actual loss because it was over the cost of production. A western farmer had to sell his corn for eight to ten cents a bushel when the eastern broker demanded ...
Subjects: History Term Papers