Reform in the Gilded Age Practice Test

A secondary-source excerpt about rural reform claims that farmers formed cooperatives and political organizations to fight high railroad rates, tight credit, and unfavorable crop-lien arrangements. The author notes that these efforts culminated in a new national third party in the early 1890s. Which party is the author describing?

A historian argues that the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) became one of the era’s largest women’s organizations by linking temperance to broader goals such as protecting families and improving public morals. Which additional reform cause did the WCTU most commonly support in the late 1800s?