The challenges that many American farmers faced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century were significant. They contended with economic hardships born out of rapidly declining farm prices, prohibitively high tariffs on items they needed to purchase, and foreign competition. One of the largest challenges they faced was overproduction, where the glut of their products in the marketplace drove the price lower and lower
North was antislavery; South was pro-slavery. North was business and trade oriented; South was agrarian. ... They wanted slavery to end in all of the United States.
