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How is Potemkin remembered in relation to the Cossacks in the southern provinces?
He dealt firmly with them
He befriended them
He ignored them
He was scared of them
Answer
Potemkin dealt firmly with the Cossacks in the southern provinces. He suppressed the Cossack uprising of 1774 and forced them to submit to Russian rule. He also established new military colonies in the southern provinces to help control the Cossacks.
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