The Effects of War

ID: 1673 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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The Effects of War

FIS was stronger than ever during World War I. Cotton prices increased dramatically, giving farmers the capital to pay off their debts and in many cases buy their own land. The society benefited as memberships and funds increased. 

This file appears in: Farmers' Improvement Society

By Dalton Strouse
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Farmers’ Improvement Society (FIS) worked to help poor farmers escape the cycle of debt caused by the share cropping and credit system which developed in the wake of the Civil War. Although…