WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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child labor
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immigration
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farm production
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railroad and warehouse rates
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Granger laws were state laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s regulating the fees grain elevator companies and railroads charged farmers to store and transport their crops. Granger laws were enacted in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange, was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Granger laws were a series of laws passed in western states of the United States after the American Civil War to regulate grain elevator and railroad freight rates and rebates and to address long-and short-haul discrimination and other railroad abuses against farmers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The “Granger railroads” are those lines radiating from Chicago and Milwaukee which have served, since the middle of the 19th century, as the rail highway to market for the harvests of the Upper Mississippi Valley.