George+Pullman-Interstate+Commerce+Act



__**George Pullman**__- built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie.

__**Credit Mobilier**__- the stockholders gave the company a contract to lay track at two or three times the cost, and pocketed the profits.

__**Grange**__- a farmers organization founded in 1867, it began demanding governmental control over the railroad industry.

__**Munn v. Illinois**__- the supreme court upheld the granger laws by a vote of seven to two.



__**Interstate Commerce Act**__- established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and established a five member Interstate Commerce Commission for that purpose.