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Why Were Farmers Angry About The Varying Railroad Rates

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Farmers were angry about the varying railroad rates. In order to obtain profit from their crops, farmers often went to railroads to have their crops shipped to stores and other businesses. People who ran the railroad businesses would often take advantage of the farmers and charged them extremely high fees for having their crops transported. In other words, they could charge them any price they wanted and get away with it 100% of the time. Farmers were fed up with the way the government was handling this issue (which was by doing nothing) and so they demanded that the government take control of all the railroad businesses and other things. In response to the farmer’s requests, president Grover Cleveland appointed the Interstate Commerce Commission
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