Question

Which of these was a corrupt business practice that Frank Norris exposed in The Octopus?
railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land
railroad companies receiving land grants from the government and attempting to sell the land
railroad companies charging farmers and ranchers to transport goods and livestock to their land
railroad companies purchasing land from the government and improving the land

Answer 1

railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land

Norris’s The Octopus criticizes the Southern Pacific’s corrupt practices, including deceptive land sales and retaining legal title to settlers’ land while extracting fees and control.