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Rural farmers grouped together in the 1890s around what monetary issue?

A. Import Tax
B. Free Silver
C. Tariffs
D. Retirement funds

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Answer: B. Free Silver

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Free Silver was an economic policy whereby the money supply of the United States would have been based on both silver and gold with silver having a fixed exchange ratio to gold.

This idea was very popular with rural farmers in the South-west of the United States as it would have given them more profit from farming and an easier way to pay off debt. The Democrats under William Jennings Bryan supported this but were defeated in every election where they stood for it.

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