The correct answer is A, farmers. Populism was active in the 1880s, and a group of agrarian reformers demaned the political and social legislation as farmers were suffering from crop failure, poor marketing, and falling prices.
The populist party was established in order to improve the economic situation faced by the farmers who at that time had to experience low profit due to the collusion among distributors to only agree to buy the product from the farmers with a relatively low prices.
