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Farmers were very much affected by the panic of 1893.
One of the factors of the panic were the populists. The populists was a political party that was against capitalism and had hostility against cities, elites, banks, railroads and gold miners - everything that symbolized capitalism - it was supported by farmers.
Another factor was the free silver movement. This movement consisted of the defense of silver as a movement of economic justice. Farmers defended this movement because they were full of debt and they wanted to have the right to turn silver directly into money without a central mining institution. This also was a platform of the populist party.
-Water ways were major improvements to the US to help w/ transportation.
-steam engines helped by allowing railroads to be built and transport items
-this allowed more jobs to be useful for the US to grow
