Author Question: Trace the attempts of the farmers to organize during the late nineteenth century as a means of ... (Read 98 times)

dejastew · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Frederick Jackson Turner considered the end of the ________ a milestone in United States history.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 2

Most of the longhorn cattle slaughtered for the urban markets of the East came originally from the state of ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 3

Discuss how magazines shaped (or reflected) the American public's image of the West.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

Trace the attempts of the farmers to organize during the late nineteenth century as a means of confronting the economic and social problems they faced during that period.

What will be an ideal response?

anoriega3 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 21, 2019

Answer 1

Answer: frontier

Answer 2

Answer: Texas

Answer 3

Answer: Pictures that accompanied stories of the West illustrated Indians as savages, while actions of the U.S. Army were justified. The reader would be unlikely to have any sympathy for the Indians' plight.

Answer 4

Answer: In the 1860s and 1870s farmers organized the Grange, and with some success brought pressure on state legislatures to regulate the practices of the railroads and grain elevator companies. With the decline of the Grange in the 1880s, the Southern Farmers' Alliance attempted to organize farmers to confront their problems through political action and cooperatives. By the 1890s, some farm groups came to believe it was necessary to form a third political party to try to achieve the political agenda of the farmers.