Which statement about the farm economy of the Gilded Age is most accurate?
a. Farm prices were set in Chicago or New York, and farmers had to accept them.
b. Inflation was putting thousands of farmers out of business every year.
c. Farm production could not keep up with increases in population.
d. To attract rural customers, interest rates for western farmers were less than the rates paid by eastern industrialists.
ANSWER: a
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