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Schlebecker John T. Whereby we thrive: A history of American farming, 1607–1972 (1972) online; Skaggs, Jimmy M. Prime cut: Livestock raising and meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983 (Texas A&M UP, 1986). Taylor, Carl C. The farmers' movement, 1620–1920 (1953) online edition; Walker, Melissa, and James C. Cobb, eds.
The farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896. ... "Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A ...
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High ...
History of the Jews in the Southern United States; ... and the country life movement, 1900-1920." Agricultural History 53.2 ... to Colonial American Farmers ...
The productivity of wheat went up from 19 US bushels (670 L; 150 US dry gal; 150 imp gal) per acre in 1720 to around 30 US bushels (1,100 L; 240 US dry gal; 230 imp gal) by 1840, marking a major turning point in history. [167] Jethro Tull's seed drill, invented in 1701
While the movement existed in all parts of the United States to combat Jim Crow law policies, its focus was against the Jim Crow laws taking place in the South. Most of the major events in the movement occurred in the South, including the Montgomery bus boycott , the Mississippi Freedom Summer , the Selma to Montgomery marches , and the ...
The Ocala Demands was a platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.In December, 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association met jointly in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida, where they ...
Pages in category "History of agriculture in the United States" ... Farmers' movement; ... Southern Tenant Farmers Union;