The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 19

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"…Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world;our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value,which must,within a few weeks or months,be exchanged for billions of dollars' worth of commodities consumed in their production…We believe that the power of government -in other words,of the people-should be expanded… as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify,to the end that oppression,injustice,and poverty shall eventually cease in the land…."
Preamble of the Populist Platform,1892
-The Populist Party emerged from

• A) the southerners who came to power after Reconstruction.
• B) the grievances of farmers.
• C) skilled and unskilled workers.
• D) the KKK.

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