Granger Movement

noun

, U.S. History.

1. a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry the Grange, a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.

Example Sentences

The Granger movement formed its open expression in the western states.

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A second variety of the older railroad commissions dates from the period of the Granger Movement in the West.

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The Radicals maintained that this granger movement was only another manifestation of Ku Klux, and it was, in a way.

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