Granger movement

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The Granger movement was a late 19th-century U.S. farmers’ organization that fought railroad monopolies and promoted agricultural cooperatives and political reforms to protect rural interests.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf agrarian movement
political movement
social movement
aimedAt curbing grain elevator monopolies
political reform
promoting agricultural cooperatives
protecting farmers
regulating railroad rates
basedOn fraternal organization model
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endTime late 1870s
floruit 1870s
followedBy Farmers’ Alliance NERFINISHED
Populist movement
foundedBy Oliver Hudson Kelley NERFINISHED
hasCause market power of grain elevator operators
post–Civil War agricultural distress
railroad rate abuses
hasEffect encouraging farmer political activism
expansion of cooperative enterprises
laying groundwork for later Populist movement
strengthening state regulation of railroads
hasPart National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry NERFINISHED
local Granges
state Granges
influenced Granger Laws NERFINISHED
Munn v. Illinois NERFINISHED
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois NERFINISHED
creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission
state railroad regulation
location Great Plains NERFINISHED
Midwestern United States NERFINISHED
Southern United States NERFINISHED
motto “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
opposedTo discriminatory freight rates
grain elevator rate discrimination
railroad monopolies
participant rural communities
small farmers
partOf 19th-century American agrarian reform
religion nonsectarian
startTime 1867
usedMethod cooperative marketing
cooperative purchasing
litigation support
political lobbying

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Populist movement influencedBy Granger movement
Munn v. Illinois relatedMovement Granger movement