Author Question: Which statement below concerning the farmers' alliance movement is true? A) The movement was ... (Read 49 times)

Ebrown · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Which statement below concerning the farmers' alliance movement is true?

A) The movement was restricted to the agrarian South, because agriculture was prosperous elsewhere.
B) The movement initially advocated farmers' cooperatives and eventually turned to politics.
C) They wanted was never able to build a large membership.
D) The movement failed to win many supporters because of its virulent racism.
E) They wanted limited itself to a social and educational role and attempted to remain as non-controversial as possible to gain maximum support in Congress.

Question 2

Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

A) A record-high tariff
B) The decision to cease government purchases of silver
C) Government attacks on entrenched economic interests
D) The decline of political activism in the agrarian South and West
E) The worst economic depression in the nineteenth century