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Zorluk: OrtaGilded Age Politics and the Populist Movement

“We are opposed to such spirit and management of any corporation or enterprise as tends to oppress the people and rob them of their just profits. We are not enemies to railroads, navigable canals, or any corporation that will subserve our industrial interests and be content with fair and reasonable revenues. But we are opposed to the tyranny of monopolies, and the high rates of transportation, which are now grinding the face of the laboring man and the farmer.”
— Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange, 1874

The complaints expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following political developments in the late nineteenth century?

  1. The organization of agrarian political parties advocating for the federal regulation of transport rates and cooperative enterprise.Cevap
  2. B
    The adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment to establish the direct election of United States senators by urban voters.
  3. C
    The federal government's strict adherence to a pure laissez-faire system that prohibited subsidies and land grants to corporations.
  4. D
    The creation of the Federal Reserve System to regulate the money supply and control corporate trust growth.

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The organization of agrarian political parties advocating for the federal regulation of transport rates and cooperative enterprise.
The correct option is correct because the grievances of the National Grange over monopolistic railroad rates and corporate practices directly motivated farmers to organize politically. This activism progressed from local Granger leagues to the Farmers' Alliance and eventually culminated in the establishment of the People's (Populist) Party in the early 1890s, which advocated for government ownership or strict regulation of railroads and communication systems.

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1
Analyze the source document and identify the author and date.
The document is the Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange from 1874, reflecting the grievances of midwestern and southern farmers during the early Gilded Age.
Understanding the source context helps locate the question within the correct historical era and thematic framework of agrarian unrest.
2
Identify the core complaints raised in the excerpt.
The author opposes monopoly power and high transportation/railroad rates that negatively impact farmers and laborers.
This establishes what issues the Grange sought to address through collective action.
3
Connect the complaints to subsequent late-nineteenth-century political developments.
The dissatisfaction of farmers with railroad rates and corporate power led to the Granger laws, the Farmers' Alliance, and ultimately the formation of the Populist (People's) Party in 1892, which made railroad regulation a key platform issue.
This links the historical cause (Grange grievances) to the direct political effect in the late nineteenth century.

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The agrarian response to industrialization and the rise of the Populist movement.
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Gilded Age Politics and the Populist Movement

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