Grange: It provided social, cultural, n educational activities for its members. Its constitution banned involvement in politics, but Grangers often ignored the rules n supported railroad regulation n other measures. Most members were in the Midwest n south. ... Commerce Commision to investigate n oversee railroad activities. The act outlawed rebates n pooling agreements, n the ICC became the prototype of the federal commissions that today regulate many parts of the economy. Social Darwinism: it had a number of influential followers in the U.s. Under the hands of Sumners and others, it did in...

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... the old and new values occured every day. One of the great conflicts was the Scopes Monkey Trial. Not only was the trial a battle between fundamentalism and Darwinism, it was a fight between tradition and new social changes. The old belief was to accept what society dictated, such as Wm. J. Bryan's (the prosecuting attorney in the Monkey Trial) thought that "everything" in the ... ...

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