The answer is a.
The Populist Party was originally formed by farmers in response to the growing threat big companies had on them. So that rules out b through d.
If you want me to give you a more detailed explanation of the Populist Party, let me know because I just had a final on this in college. :)
The sixteenth amendment (amendment XVI)
Answer:
African Americans continued to farm because there were few opportunities other than sharecropping.
Explanation:
Many African Americans remained bound to the land after the Civil War because there were few economic opportunities and most of the skills they had learned were related to farming. There was also the Civil War idea called “forty acres and a mule,” when it was envisioned that blacks would cultivate land that was to be abandoned by whites. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ordered abandoned Confederate land to be sold to freedmen and agreed to loan army mules. By 1865, 40,000 formerly enslaved persons lived on 400,000 acres of land primarily in South Carolina and Georgia. During Reconstruction sharecropping became common among the African Americans who stayed where they would rent land from landowners and pay with a percentage of what they harvested.
The reason why Great Britain and France declared war on Germany at the beginning of the second World war was because A - The invasion of Poland.
When Germany invaded Poland this was the beginning of what would later be called the second World war. A tense atmosphere was brewing up in Europe for a few years since then already because when Hitler's party took charge of Germany, it increasingly militarized the country and was preparing it for war.
Farmer rented land from landowners in return for a share of the crops
