What was the Populist movement in the late nineteenth-century United States?
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Correct answer: Farmers and workers seeking economic reforms against railroad, bank, and corporate power
The Populist movement grew from farmers' frustrations with debt, low crop prices, railroad rates, and banking policies. It sought reforms that would give ordinary producers more political and economic power.
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