Question

economic challenges to farmers and farmers responses to those challenges in the middle to late 1800s

Answer 1

The primary economic problem was the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. Farms and plantations alike were looted if not burned, and the infrastructure needed to bring products to market were largely destroyed. Farmers and plantation owners, having lost their slaves, found themselves needing to actually pay people to do work.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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