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Gilded Age Politics
“What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more hell.”
POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE LATE 1800s
Toward the end of the 1800s, the two major political parties (Republican and Democrat), had
almost equal support across the nation. While the Republican base seemed to be centered in the
North and Midwest, Democrats drew most of their support from the South and West. Also a few
small political parties like the People’s Party, Prohibition Party and…
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