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Harran Derrick was a Rancher and he believed that the railroad was cheating him by always passing the point of destination for his goods and him having to pay extra money to get the goods to the final destination.
He also believed that the railroads were taking the land that he spent time to cultivate and using it for their construction purposes which was allowed due to the importance of the development of more rail roads and the rail system in general.
The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract between the government and the governed stemmed from the Enlightenment as well
<span>Progressive Era reformers at the turn of the century successfully compelled local governments to introduce 'civil service systems' to replace political machine.</span>
