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In the decades after the Civil War, how did the railroads hurt farmers financially?

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by charging smaller farmers higher rates

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it hurt the farmers by the train might be long then it blocks the sunlight and what if the farmer wanted to plant a tree everyone knows that a tree takes up a lot of soil and a train tracks will  keep the tree from growing then it dies.
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