Which of the following best describes why the farmers’ alliances formed the populist party?
a) the farmers’ alliances were not successful in changing the crop-lien system and needed to form a national political party as a result.

b) the farmers’ alliances were not successful in maintaining cooperative businesses and needed to form a national political party as a result.

c) the farmers’ alliances were not successful in influencing national farm policy in
favor of farmers and needed to form a national political party as a result.

d) the farmers’ alliances were not successful in reforming the sharecropping system and needed to form a national political party as a result.

The correct answer is C, as the Farmers' Alliances were not successful in influencing national farm policy in favor of farmers and needed to form a national political party as a result.

Because the claims of the Farmers' Alliance respect of the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers, government regulation of the transportation industry, establishment of an income tax in order to restrict the speculative profits, and the adoption of an inflationary relaxation of the nation's money supply as a means of easing the burden of repayment of loans by debtors were not resolved by governments, it decided to become a political party that fought for these issues.

Thus, they formed the Populist Party, which lasted from 1891 to 1908, without obtaining great results.

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