Farmers' Alliance

Farmers' Alliance
First banner of the Southern Farmers' Alliance, organized on a statewide basis in Texas in 1878
Abbreviation	FA
Members	• National Farmers's Alliance (Northern)  • National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union (White Southerners)  • National Alliance and Cooperative Union (Black Southerners)
Part of	Farmers' Movement
Founded	1877
Dissolved	1890's
Preceded by	The Grange
Succeeded by	People's Party
Newspaper	see below
Ideology	Agrarianism Populism Progressivism Land reform Monetary reform
Political position	Left wing
Politics of United States Political parties Elections

The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains, where the Granger movement had been strong, and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African American farmers of the South.

One of the goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period following the American Civil War. The Alliance also generally supported the government regulation of the transportation industry, establishment of an income tax in order to restrict speculative profits, and the adoption of an inflationary relaxation of the nation's money supply as a means of easing the burden of repayment of loans by debtors. The Farmers' Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."