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Question 1.
Between 1877 and 1900, southern states disfranchised African Americans with laws establishing poll taxes, literacy tests, and "grandfather clauses."


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Question 2.
While the Republican party of the 1870s and 1880s supported increased power and activity at the national level of government, the Democrats emphasized decentralized government with more power and activity at the state and local level.


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Question 3.
Between the years 1877 and 1888, the American presidency lost power as Congress reasserted much power and authority that it had lost during the period of the Civil War and Reconstruction.


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Question 4.
In 1892, southern Populists tried to unite black and white farmers to support their party.


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Question 5.
James Weaver gained the presidential nomination of both the Democrats and the Populists in 1892.


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Question 6.
In 1893, economic overexpansion led to a panic and depression which President Cleveland insisted was caused by the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.


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Question 7.
In the election of 1894, Democrats won the greatest victory in the history of midterm elections.


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Question 8.
During the depression of the 1890s, an increasing number of Americans blamed unemployment on individual failure.


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Question 9.
Southern Democrats refused to support the Populist platform in 1892, so by 1896, most southern Populists had switched to the Republican party.


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Question 10.
Advocates of free silver believed in a quantity theory of money.


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