The Populist Party was a third party created due to the discontent of farmers against the major political parties (Republican and Democratic parties) because of the Gold Standard issue, and because they felt ignored. This Party is often regarded as a failure because it focused on one issue (to increase the money supply) and tried to gain the support of farmers and workers, but the workers' wants and needs were different than those of the farmers, so the Populist Party didn't had all the support it needed to succeed and ended up being absorbed by the Progressive Party. Although the Populist Party didn't succeed, it helped creating awareness of the farmers conditions, so that the Republican and Democratic parties could also focus on that side of the population.
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C) To acknowledge primary documents are without bias.
<span>History has been recorded ever since the beginning of time, it is important to look into the primary documents in history and to understand each perspective. Understanding history means, not being biased with the basis of your understanding, every era has a reason why those events had happened.</span>
In 1600 and 1700 England and France fought for Northern America, while Spain and Portugal were colonizing central and South America. You can still see the legacy of this in the languages spoken in the region.