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The Amendment to the Constitution that ended the practice of slavery throughout the United States was the

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Thirteenth

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Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War was viewed by the victorious Northerners as

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The only way the South could be prevented from restoring their pre-Civil War society

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The era of Reconstruction can best be described as

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An important first step toward civil rights

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When the Confederate armies surrendered,

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Lincoln would allow no formal peace treaty to be signed between the Confederate and federal governments

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In the aftermath of emancipation, most African Americans wanted all of the following improvements in their lives except

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Desegregated schools and fraternal societies

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Radical Republicans in Congress believed that reconstructing the South should include all of the following measures except

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the permanent occupation of the South by the Union Army

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Republicans Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner urged that

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large numbers of Southern whites be disenfranchised

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President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction can best be described as

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mild

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The Freedmen’s Bureau eventually had all of the following powers except

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creating a welfare system

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Before the end of the Civil War, the Reconstruction plan advanced by Congress in opposition to Lincoln’s “Ten Percent Plan” was the

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Wade-Davis Bill

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To many Northerners, the murder of Abraham Lincoln

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seemed to indicate a large conspiracy on the part of the defeated South

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Instead of using the term Reconstruction for his program for the South, Andrew Johnson called it

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restoration

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The unique feature of President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was

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individual pardons for wealthy Southerners

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Radical Reconstruction officially began when

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Congress reconvened in December, 1865

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The purpose of the Black Codes was to

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guarantee white supremacy in the South

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During 1865 and 1866, Northern opinion grew hostile toward the South because of all of the following developments except

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the assassination of a number of Southern Republican governors

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All of the following describe the first Civil Rights Act passed by Congress in 1866 except

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allowed for individual pardons for wealthy southern planters

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The first official definition of citizenship was included in

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the Fourteenth Amendment

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All of the following actions by Andrew Johnson angered Congress except

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the appointment of a Southerner to the Supreme Court

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The Republican Congress responded to the establishment of Black Codes in the South by

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extending the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau

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The former Confederate state that escaped most of Radical Reconstruction was

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Tennessee

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The Congressional Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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divided the South into military districts

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The provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment gave the right to vote to

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Blacks

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The Tenure of Office Act was designed to

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prohibit the president from removing cabinet members without the Senate’s approval

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When Andrew Johnson was impeached, the House had

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accused him of a crime

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After the House impeached Andrew Johnson, his trial in the Senate ended in

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an acquittal

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Republican Reconstruction governments were supported by all of the following groups except

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redeemers

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Black freedmen attempted to exercise their rights by all of the following methods except

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advocating their colonization in Africa

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During Reconstruction, no Southern black was elected to

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a state governorship

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The most positive accomplishment of Reconstruction in the South was

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improving public education

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During Reconstruction, educational reform was promoted by all of the following groups except

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Southern Democrats

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By the end of Reconstruction, the majority of Southern blacks

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were tenant farmers

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During Reconstruction, the per capita income for Southern blacks

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increased substantially

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The crop lien system that developed in the South during Reconstruction involved all of the following factors except

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it was administered primarily by country banks

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Ulysses S. Grant is considered to have been

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a failure as president

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Grant’s administration developed substantial opposition because

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he allowed corruption to develop in his administration

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A key factor in Ulysses S. Grant’s victory in the presidential election of 1868 was

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the huge black vote for Grant in the South

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The Credit Mobilier scandal involved

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fraudulent construction contracts for the Union Pacific Railroad

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The Panic of 1873

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was the worst depression that the United States had experienced up until that time

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The supporters of greenbacks wanted to

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inflate the currency

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The Specie Resumption Act of 1875 provided that greenbacks would be

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redeemed for gold certificates

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The Alabama claims were monetary claims by

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Americans against the British

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To intimidate and subjugate newly freed blacks during Reconstruction, Southern whites used all of the following tactics except

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Whites forced the blacks into ghettos so that they could be better controlled

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The split in the Southern branch of the Republican Party in 1872 resulted in

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many white Republicans eventually joining the Democratic party

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By the early 1870s, Ku Klux Klan violence against African-Americans was

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on the decline

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In the presidential election of 1876, the Republicans hoped to get the problems of the Grant administration behind them by nominating

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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The terms of the Compromise of 1877 included all of the following provisions except

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giving Republicans control of federal patronage in the South

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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in the

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end of Reconstruction in the South

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By the end of the Reconstruction period, all of the following developments had occurred except

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most national leaders had become willing to infringe on the rights of states

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The revisionist view of Reconstruction challenged the traditional view of Reconstruction that was advanced by

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William A. Dunning

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Current historical thought considers Reconstruction to have been

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much more successful than first thought

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During the Second Reconstruction that occurred in the 1860s and 1870s, blacks benefited from legislation passed during Reconstruction that is known as the

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Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

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Southern politics after Reconstruction was dominated by

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Democrats

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Of the following groups, the least likely to become “Redeemers” were

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blacks

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The “Readjusters”demanded that

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Southern state governments put more money toward state services

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Post-Reconstruction industry in the South

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far surpassed that of the years before the Civil War

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The industrial workforce of the South

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Included a large number of women

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Industrial workers in the New South were

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predominantly women

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In the 1870s and 1880s, Southern agriculture exhibited all of the following general characteristics except

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new machinery and farming techniques appeared quickly

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The crop-lien system of agriculture had all of the following results except

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reliance on cash crops decreased

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In discussing the origins of segregation, historians offered all of the following interpretations except

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the refusal of blacks to vote for members of the white elite led to the loss of all their rights

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In The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward argued that

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laws of the 1890s institutionalized segregation in the South

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Historian Leon Litwack

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showed that segregation existed in the North before the Civil War

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After Reconstruction, the South began to reassert white supremacy by all of the following means except

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anti-lynching laws

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Most members of the black middle class that developed in the South in the late 1800s worked as

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doctors, lawyers, nurses, or teachers for other blacks

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According to Booker T. Washington, the ideal of black education was to

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teach blacks technical skills so they could get jobs in agriculture or trades

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Southerners deprived black Americans of their civil rights by all of the following means except

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prohibiting black schools

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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed to stand the practice of

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separate but equal public facilities

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Southerners deprived black Americans of their right to vote by all of the following means except

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Residency requirements

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The process of depriving African Americans of the right to vote in the South

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consisted of such regulations as literacy tests and poll taxes

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Lynching in the South after Reconstruction

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more than 80 percent of the lynchings in the entire nation, even surpassing the Far West

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Prior to the Civil War, minstrel shows

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contained ridiculous and ignorant portrayals of African-American culture

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Lincoln’s plan for the readmission of former Confederate states to the Union

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included provisions for providing freed slaves political and civil rights

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Radical Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution because

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they wanted the constitution, not the emancipation proclamation, to acknowledge the end of slavery

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Corruption in Southern Reconstruction governments was

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part of the post-Civil War political culture throughout the nation

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The most convincing evidence that “negro rule” during Reconstruction was not a valid concept is

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freedmen controlled no state legislatures and no governorships

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During Grant’s first term as president, the Republican Party divided over

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the blatant use of patronage to solidify his support within the party

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Republican support for the Compromise of 1877 came from

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a desire to maintain office, and declining interest in civil rights for blacks

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One of the most important legacies of Reconstruction for America was the

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ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

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In the Atlanta Constitution, Henry Grady championed the idea that

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Southern culture and economy should adopt Northern commercial values

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The crop-lien system in the South after the Civil War had all of the following effects except

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increased opportunity to establish farms that were mainly self-sufficient

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“Cast down your bucket where you are. Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know” best expresses the ideas of

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Booker T. Washington in the “Atlanta Compromise”

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The white power structure in the “redeemed” South designed voting laws to

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to stop both blacks and poor whites from politically uniting against them

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