Expansionism
During the post-civil war period, many farmers, black and white, began organizing. Farmers in the Midwest and near city markets adjusted to the new economic conditions. The new problems of southern and western farmers produced the first mass organization of farmers in American History. The earliest effort to organize white farmers came in 1867 when Oliver Kelley founded the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. By 1875 800,000 had joined Kelley?s organization, known as the National Grange. The farmers wanted to confront the railroads. They wanted to establish maximum rates that railroads and grain elevators could charge. In 1877 the Supreme Court upheld them in Munn v. Illinois. Granger laws failed to control the railroads. The Supreme Court had made it clear that state legislature could reg
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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