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bankers and railroad companies
Grange.
To unite the farmers to fight for political reform, first targeting railroad rates.
interdependence
95% Were farmers :)
They charged high shipping rates for getting farm products to market. >NovaNet<
city government. industrialists. immigrants.
They charged high shipping rates for getting farm products to market. >NovaNet<
The farmers didn't like monopolies because they couldn't get any workers to work for them.
farmers used them to move cotton.
Farmers that fought railroad abuses are called grangers.
bankers and railroad companies
Railroad
Monopolies and trusts were big businesses that had gained control over all other competition, therefore allowing themselves to regulate prices (usually causing widespread debt on people who were reliant on their services). An example of this is the railroad companies during the industrial revolution who could charge ludicrously per freight car of goods shipped to the farmers who were unable to get their goods out otherwise. These monopolies, or trusts, are now prevented by the government to keep them from hurting others as they did in the past.
The ICC helped farmers by regulating railroad shipping rates
Grange.
it gave farmers a way to organize for better crop prices.