What were colonists who became wealthy risking their money buying land, equipment, and supplies and selling them for a profit called?

d. the right to establish a one-house legislature

a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.