Gilded Age What was the government's reaction to-

a) Business
b) Labor Unions (including strikes)
c) Interstate commerce

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.

c. extended rights of citizenship to new groups