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Politics and the Gilded Age

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The Drumbeat of Discontent• Sou<strong>the</strong>rn blacks ended up much worse afterPopulist campaign– Populists reminded sou<strong>the</strong>rners that blacks hadpolitical strength– Whites in South took away <strong>the</strong> few voting rightsthat blacks still had• More aggressive use of poll taxes <strong>and</strong> literacy tests• “gr<strong>and</strong>fa<strong>the</strong>r clause” that exempted anyone whoseancestors (fa<strong>the</strong>r / gr<strong>and</strong>fa<strong>the</strong>r) had voted before 1860(when no black had voted)– More severe Jim Crow laws to enforcesegregation, backed up by lynching <strong>and</strong> violence– Populist party itself turned into party of racism

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