Granger Movement

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

She invoked the Granger Movement of the late 1800s, in which farmers and other activists successfully fought railroad monopolies.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2019

It was the public indignation against long continued discrimination and undue preferences which brought about the Granger Movement, which resulted, seventeen years later, in the enactment of the first Interstate Commerce Act.

From Fifty Years of Public Service by Cullom, Shelby M.