Chapter 8 Section 3 The Populist Movement. The Farmers Plight The rise in industrialization changed farmers lives significantly More people in urban areas.
As settlers moved west, they encountered a different climate and landscape Great Plains-arid, scarcity and water and timber…traditional pioneer methods.
Farming Frontier of 1862 160 acres of public land fee to any family that settled on it for a period of 5 years 1870-1890 about 500,000 families claimed.
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