PLZ HELP history multiple choice..severely stuck?

Question

Social reforms passed in Britain in the late 1800s helped which of the following groups most?

a. women
b industrial workers
c middle-class men
d farmers

Excerpt from book

" In the 1880s it was the turn of gladstone and the Liberal party to extend suffrage. Their reforms gave the vote to farmworkers and most other men. By century's end, almost universal male suffrage, the secret ballot, and other Chartist ambitions had been acheived. "

Answer 1

D

Answer 2

D, The exerpt explains it clearly "Reforms gave the vote to farmworkers and most other men"

just look which ones are definatly not it.

A- women, there is nothing about women in this exerpt
B- Industial workers- no talk of industry
C- middle-class men, they did say "most other men" but middle-class is a specific class of people and they did not specify

so then D- farmers you can then deduct that its the correct answer.