Which of the following best characterizes the sectional reunion blight describes?
a. Gilded Age financial policies encouraged economic growth in the North and the South.
b. The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.
c. New political alliances united Northern and Southern members of the Democratic Party to win control of both houses in Congress.
d. White laborers in the North and African American farmers in the South joined together in the Populist movement.