https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6 en-us 2022-09-16 05:24:19 UTC 2022-09-21 07:35:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 22h20207 https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299476518 Farmers' Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s and '80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy. ]]> 2022-09-16 05:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299476518 22h20207 https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299476870 They proposed that the national government construct warehouses, or subtreasuries, and issue negotiable notes on crops deposited in the warehouses.]]> 2022-09-16 05:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299476870 22h20207 https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477094 Overproduction and high tariffs left the country's farmers in increasingly desperate straits, and the federal government's inability to help them left them disillusioned. In response to inconsistent responses from state governments, many farmers sought alternative solutions which was the main purpose of ther revolt ]]> 2022-09-16 05:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477094 22h20207 https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477501 They set up their own cooperative stores, which bought directly from wholesalers and sold their goods to farmers at a lower rate, at times 20 to 30 percent below the regular retail price.
Also the Allience established its own mills for flour, cotton seed oil, and corn, as well as its own cotton gin. Such facilities allowed debt-laden farmers, who often had little cash to pay third-party mills, to bring their goods to markets at a lower cost.


]]> 2022-09-16 05:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477501 22h20207 https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477583 The Farmers' Alliances hardworking had some success during the 1880s and 1890s in having supporters elected to local and state offices.]]> 2022-09-16 05:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/farmersrevoltmindmap/l53uplbvu53czzh6/wish/2299477583