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In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln |
insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist |
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At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was |
about 3.5 million |
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In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as |
independence from white control |
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In 1865, Southern whites defined "freedom" as |
controlling their future without Northern interference |
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The Freedmen’s Bureau |
distributed food to millions of former slaves |
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As Republicans planned for Reconstruction |
Radicals sought a range of punishment for white Southerners |
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President Abraham Lincoln’s "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the |
number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government |
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The Wade-Davis Bill |
sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates |
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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln |
involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration |
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As a president, Andrew Johnson |
offered some form of amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States |
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In the 1860’s Black Codes were |
designed to give whites control over freedom |
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The 14th Amendment |
gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States |
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In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction |
required new state governments in the South with civilian leaders |
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The 15th Amendment death with the issue of |
suffrage |
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The Tenure of Office Act |
was deigned to limit President Andrew Johnson’s authority |
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As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ex party Milligan, some Radical Republicans |
proposed abolishing the Court |
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he |
all these answers are correct |
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At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment rial |
Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote |
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During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to |
Southern white Republicans |
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During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were |
Northern white veterans who moved to the South |
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During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders |
underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South |
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During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern |
education |
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During Reconstruction, the Southern school system |
reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876 |
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During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South |
ownership by white declined and blacks increased |
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Black sharecropping |
was a very common occupation of former slaves |
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During Reconstruction, per capita income for Southerners |
rose for blacks and declined for whtie |
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During Reconstruction, the black labor force worded |
significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery |
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After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from |
country stores |
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In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system |
encouraged the planting of cash crops |
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By the end of Reconstruction |
roughly half of all black women were working for wages |
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In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant |
entered the White House with no political experience |
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Schuyler Colfax, Grant’s vice president |
was involved in a stock-fixing scandal |
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The Panic of 1873 |
was the nation’s worst economic depression to that time |
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During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired |
Alaska |
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The Alabama claims |
involved complaints by the United States against England |
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By the time Grant left office, Democrats had taken back control of the government in |
most of the former Confederate states |
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Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871 |
was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the south |
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Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of |
All these answers are correct |
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The election of 1876 saw |
the candidate with the most popular votes vail to get elected |
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As a president, Rutherford B. Hayes |
promised to serve only one term |
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Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate |
Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly support them |
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After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers" |
was very often restricted and conservative |
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Advocates of the "New South" |
promoted southern industry and railroad development |
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In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century |
the southern share of national manufacturing doubled |
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During the last quarter of the 19th century, southern agriculture |
saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system |
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Among other positions, Booker T. Washington |
favored industrial over classical education |
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In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" Booker T. Washington |
called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation |
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The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that |
racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations" |
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Jim Crow laws |
imposed a system of state-supported segregation |
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By the 1890’s, voting percentages in the South had |
decreased for both whites and blacks |
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In the 1890’s the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking |
the crime of lynching |
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