Why did farmers think that a new political party was needed to bring about reform?

The major parties didn’t represent farmers’ interests.

The Republican and Democratic Parties were controlled by bankers and the

landowning elite.

Farmers wanted a voice in government.

Farmers had already had some success at the local level.

Farmers wanted to affect national policy and enact needed reforms.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live

powerful warriors rose to become chiefs, who had a privileged place in society.