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Why did American farmers have so much difficulty in the late 1880's?

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Because railroad rates, monopoly prices charged for farm machinery and fertillizer, high tariff, unfair tax structure, inflexible banking system, political corruption, corporations that brohght up huge tracks of land etc

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