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Question

This organization was co-founded by Oliver Kelley in Fredonia, New York, after the Department of Agriculture commissioned Kelley to tour southern states. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this national organization that lobbied for policies like Rural Free Delivery. A series of 1870s laws regulating fares and grain storage costs was named for this organization.

ANSWER: The Grange [or National Grange; or The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; accept Granger Laws]

[10e] This state’s Granger Laws were upheld in an 1876 Supreme Court case after being contested by the Munn and Scott grain warehouse company. This state’s most populous city was devastated by an 1871 Great Fire.

ANSWER: Illinois [or IL; accept Munn v. Illinois]

[10m] Chicago businessman Montgomery Ward, a competitor of this man, financed early Grange consumer cooperatives in the 1870s. After retiring, this man left his mail-order business to Julius Rosenwald.

ANSWER: Richard Sears [or Richard Warren Sears]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	80%	60%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	11	10.91	73%	27%	9%
Florida	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	24.29	100%	86%	57%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	20.00	88%	75%	38%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	22.00	100%	70%	50%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	18.33	100%	42%	42%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	21.67	100%	75%	42%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	Main	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%

Data


Amherst A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Yale A	BC A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Clemenceau	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brown C	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	0	10
Cornell-UG	BU	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Williams	BC B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth	Yale B	10	10	10	30