The Granger Movement, Vol. 19: A Study of Agricultural, Organization and Its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations 1870-1880 (Classic Reprin Hardback -

Social unrest has been one of the most marked characteristics of the last half-century in the United States. During this period the country, and especially the western part of it, has been transformed from a comparatively simple agricultural community into a complex modern industrial state; and in the process of adjustment the agricultural class of the population, among others, has been inclined to feel aggrieved. The result has been a series of radical agitations on the part of the farmers for the improvement, by organized effort, of their relative con dition. Of this general farmers' movement, the first wave, which is the subject of this study, began with the establishment of the order of Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, slowly gathered headway for a few years, and then suddenly culminated in a series of startling manifestations, political and economic, during the years from 1873 to 1875. From then on to the end of the decade, this Granger movement gradually subsided, although many of its features were embodied in the programs of the more radical agricultural movements which took their rise in the early eighties.

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