The Growth of Discontent
Farmers
KEY CONCEPTS
 The Grange, Farmers‘ Alliances, and Populists emerged to contest big
business‘s control over the marketplace.
Ch. 26
THE GROWTH OF DISCONTENT: FARMERS ORGANIZE
• Cause
– Population and farms
– Urbanization
– Mechanization
• Consequence
– Farmers lose profits
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Grain storage operators
Manufacturing prices
Banks – crop-lien system
Railroad industry
Agrarian Groups – Grange and the Farmers’ Alliance
• Farmers Alliance
– Mary Elizabeth
Lease
• Result
– The Grange
Grange Utilizes Political Clout
• “Granger Laws”
• Supreme Court decisions
– Munn v. Illinois (1877)
– Peik v. the Chicago and
Northwest Railway
(1876)
– Illinois v. Wabash (1886)
• Interstate Commerce Act
Ch. 26
RIGHT-SIDE
“Heartland” video
America The Story of US
• As you watch the video, takes notes on the following topics:
1. Lincoln and the Transcontinental Railroad
2. Transcontinental Railroad – pros and cons
3. Bison (“buffalo”) and the Native Americans
4. Theodore “Crazy” Judah
5. U.S Military vs. Native Americans (battles/outcomes)
6. Richard Sears
7. Take-A-Stand: How did the Transcontinental Railroad
and the U.S. relationship with Native American impact
America? Support.