When the populist party threatened the democratic party

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Question: When the Populist Party threatened the Democratic Party's control of Louisiana, how did the state legislature respond? It adopted the Populist platform and beat the party at its own game. It created a new state constitution that established a literacy test and grandfather clause for voters. It closed the polls temporarily in order to keep Populist and African American voters from casting their ballots. It petitioned the federal government to intervene in the state elections.

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