1. Members of the Populist Party supported public ownership of railroads because they
thought it would
A. help small farmers.
B. reduce immigration.
C. decrease income taxes.
D. change monetary policy,

A. Help small farmers

Explanation:

The Populists believed that the federal government needed to play a more active role in the American economy by regulating various businesses, especially the railroads. This way it would help those with a lower income or those who were not known to many, one of the groups of peoples that this would help were small farmers.

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the answers is b.   environments.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.