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What Explains the Rise of the Populist Party in the 1890s

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What explains the rise of the Populist party in the 1890s? Were the Populists reflecting only farmers' discontent, or did they express a deeper and wider political disaffection with the shortcomings of the two-party system in addressing adequately serious economic problems in the country?


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