The Industrial and Progressive Era

The state and federal legislation and judicial decisions affected the efforts of the farmers and the workers to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920 by setting up laws to protect the rights of the farmers and to protect the working conditions of the workers. Farmers would have to suffer from a battle with the railroad companies as they attacked the farms with systems of long short hauls and frequent rate changes. To protect the farmers, government established laws and court decisions that helped improve the lives of the farmers. …