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Following the mid-term election of 1894,

1875     Part of the so-called Mississippi Plan, literacy tests, had a weakness in that they made illiterate whites inelligible to vote.  This weakness was corrected by the institution of the ___________. 

The term ____________ refers to the legislative practice of slipping funding for a local project into a broader budget (by attaching it as an amendment to a bill which is assured of passage), even when said project may have little or nothing to do with the larger bill. Often, this funding may primarily benefit the legislator’s home district, serving to gain political or financial support.

In  ________________ the United States Supreme Court declared income tax to be unconstitutional.

Use the graph of the function f, plotted with a solid line, to sketch the graph of the given function g.g(x) = -f(x – 2) – 1

Read all questions and answers carefully before answering or chosing the correct answer. On ID questions, use complete sentences and correct grammar.

_________________ is a political philosophy which considers the state (i.e. any form of government) undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society. 

In 1890 and 1891, the 51st Congress (known as the “Billion Dollar Congress”) successfully solved one of the long-term problems facing the U.S. Government during the Gilded Age, i.e.______________.

1886     After the bombing that resulted in the Haymarket Riots (Haymarket Incident), four _____________ activists were convicted of murder and hanged.  One other was also convicted and sentenced to hang but committed suicide in prison, and several others were sentenced to stiff jail sentences.

1887  The ____________ of 1887 was described as “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands …..to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.”  It had the aim of assimilating American Indians but resulted in the loss of millions of acres of Indian lands.