The Populist Movement

The society nowadays consists of different jobs and people from different areas, but they were not like that in the late 1800s. Most Americans lived on farms. When things started changing for farmers from what they were growing to how they borrowed money due to the radical policies, consequences were brought to the farmers as the radical politics started changing farmer’s life.

One of the consequences is that the farmers are no longer dependent on themselves. In earlier times, farmers grew their own food, made their own tools, and were generally self-sufficient. They bought very few times from shopkeepers, and they bought only what they could pay for. But when farmers started borrowing money to buy machines, fertilizer, and land, they lost

As a consequence, to meet these problems, a new political movement began to form, by farmers and for farmers, called The Populist Movement. Farmers first organized themselves into cooperatives. Members of cooperatives combined their resources to buy expensive machines and get low-cost tools, seeds, and other supplies. They also stood together against the power of railroads and shipping companies. Farmers’ cooperatives were popular in the fruit-growing West, and began with orange farmers who were looking for a way to get their fruit to market without spending more than they took in. As a result, the National Grange was the first sizable political organization formed by U.S. farmers. The Grangers had reforms and they stick together. They also joined groups called Farmers’ Alliances. Farmers’ Alliance had local chapters that helped farmers with their daily work. Later on, the farmers overcame some of their challenges and formed a solid political party. It was called the U.S. People’s Party but was better known as the Populist Party. All the radical policies came to a result of forming a new political