Use the terms national grange, cooperative, and populism in a paragraph about American farmers in the late 1800s

By the end of the Civil war the South was left way behind the Northern States. On one trip to the South, Oliver Hudson Kelley from the Department of Agriculture witnessed the primitive agriculture practices of the people and the problems they were facing due to the monopolistic practices of railway companies which were charging high rates for transport their crop.

Oliver Hudson Kelley believed there was a better way to counter this and developed a small group called the grange, which were small community gathering of farmers that wanted to educate and support one another.

Grange's can be called cooperative movements by local farmers in order to improve their conditions and voice their concerns. Soon, the concept of Grange started to spread to other parts of the country, what can only be described as populism.

By the 1870s, there was a National Grange overlooking a smaller grange community in every State. The movement became so powerful, they were able to influence politics and legislation.