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A main goal of both the Granger and Populist movements was to place controls on monopolistic businesses. Farmers complained that railroads and farm product storage companies (such as grain companies) used the fact that they were large, powerful companies to increase their prices beyond what was considered fair. Railroad companies, for example, frequently monopolized the rail business in the areas in which they owned track. The high prices hurt farmers and caused the retail prices of the farm goods to be high as well, thus hurting other Americans. Thus, the Granger and Populist movements pressured the state and federal governments to regulate railroad rates and break up industrial monopolies.
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A main goal of the Granger movement of the 1870's and 1880's was to?
eliminate the abuses of the railroads
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Which long awaited goal of the woman right movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?
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