The Farmers' Alliance was originally formed to
a. drive up farm prices by reducing crop production.
b. advance agriculturally useful education in state land-grant colleges.
c. join poor black and white farmers in a political alliance to advance their similar economic interests.
d. undermine eastern bankers by providing low-cost loans to farmers.
e. break the economic grip of the railroads through farmers' cooperatives.
e
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A. a massive commitment of American troops to combat operations in South Vietnam. B. a two-phase plan that called for bombing followed by an air offensive and a naval blockade. C. an immediate naval blockade of North Vietnam. D. secret negotiations designed to end America's unlimited commitment to South Vietnam.