Discuss the assertion that “to secure segregation, the southern states had to prevent black citizens from voting” and identify some of the methods used to prevent African Americans from voting.

What will be an ideal response?

Otherwise there might not have been a majority in favor of the laws examples of which are white primary, poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause.

Political Science

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All of the following were important platforms of the nineteenth-century Republican party EXCEPT

a. opposition to the spread of slavery. b. preservation of the Union. c. abolition of slavery. d. post-Civil War reconstruction. e. government pension for all Civil War veterans.

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Most local office holders see themselves primarily as volunteers with a strong sense of civic duty

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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