To prevent the spread of the Standard Oil Company's monopoly into Texas in 1889, the state's attorney general began to file "antitrust" suits against companies affiliated with Standard Oil. This suspicion of a major corporation is an expression of what?

a. the Populist tradition in state politics
b. the state's laissez faire culture
c. the power of the Republican Party
d. the state's cowboy culture
e. the power of the national government


a

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