Populists Often Charged That There Was Conspiracy Between Government and Big

question 8

Essay

Populists often charged that there was conspiracy between government and big business aimed at holding down farmers and workers, and the federal courts were only the tools of banks and big business. What evidence did they cite for this charge? Does their argument convince you? Why or why not?

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Definitions:

Unimodal

Describes a distribution with a single prominent peak or mode, representing the most frequently occurring value in the data set.

Symmetric

A characteristic of shapes or patterns that are identical on both sides when divided by a central line or axis.

Skewed

A description of data in which the distribution is not symmetrical, but instead has a longer tail on one side of the peak or the other, indicating an asymmetry.

Median

The value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.