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The Grange - Online Term Paper

The Grange

was the first major farm organization and began in the 1860's.
This organization was created mostly as a social and self-help association not
originally an organization of protest. During the depression of 1873, this
group of bonded friends, became an "agency for political change." They knew in
ordered to help themselves they must become a voice in this new government in
order to survive.

With the depression farm product prices began to decrease. More farms
joined the Grange to band together to resolve the issues before them. Beginning
as a small group of friends learning from each other what worked and what didn't,
by 1875 the Grange boasted of over 800,000 members and 20,000 local ...

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other businesses so they could begin to buy and sell to each
other. However most of these were farmers, with families, not businessmen and
many companies didn't survive because of their lack of real business knowledge
and the pressures of the middlemen who wanted them to fail. They worked as a
team to get candidates elected who agreed with the need for governmental control
of the railroads. With the control of the Legislatures they implemented
governmental controls on railroad rates and practices. However the railroad was
also very wealthy. They hired lawyers who soon destroyed the new regulations.
With these defeats and with the new rise in farm prices in the late 1870's the
Grange began to lose strength and power, dwindling to a membership to only
100,000 by 1880.

The Grange was the springboard for another banding together of farmers,
the Farmers Alliances. This new movement began in the Southern states and
quickly spread beyond what the Grange had been. One of the most ...

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Added: 4/4/2006 11:32:32 AM
Category: American History
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