Question

Question
What was a major goal of Tom Watson and the Populist movement in Georgia during the New South Era?(1 point)
Responses

To support wealthy business leaders and former plantation owners
To support wealthy business leaders and former plantation owners

To promote reforms that helped farmers and working-class Georgians
To promote reforms that helped farmers and working-class Georgians

To increase segregation and limit voting rights
To increase segregation and limit voting rights

To expand railroad monopolies without government regulation

Answer 1

To promote reforms that helped farmers and working-class Georgians

Tom Watson and the Populists sought agrarian and economic reforms (railroad regulation, fair credit and prices, support for small farmers and laborers) rather than supporting elites or expanding monopolies.