Amain goal of both the granger and populist movements was to

A main goal of both the Granger and Populist movements was to exert controls on monopolies. Farmers complained about railroads and farm product storage companies becoming too large and powerful. As a result, the companies could charge high prices that were deemed as unfair

on this day in 1833, president andrew jackson announces that the government will no longer use the second bank of the united states, the country's national bank. a national bank had first been created by george washington and alexander hamilton in 1791 to serve as a central repository for federal fund

the second significant cause of the great migration was the desire of black southerners to escape segregation, known euphemistically as jim crow. rural african american southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the north.