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Who described Americans as a “People of Plenty” in the mid-19th century?

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Historian, David Potter

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Which historian in the 1950s claimed that slavery was harsh and that slaves were often not treated well by owners?

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Kenneth Stampp

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Who was the first Reconstruction president?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What was the name of the leader of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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What was the name of the general in Civil War

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General Robert E Lee

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Who was the union commander in the civil war

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Ulysses S Grant

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Who led the union armies in the last months of the civil war and captured atlanta and marched 440 miles across georgia to the sea?

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General William Sherman

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Who was Lincoln’s defeated candidate in 1864?

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George McLellan

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Who were the two radical republicans that were dissatisfied with Lincoln’s 10 percent plan

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The two radical Senators, Henry Winter Davis and Benjamin Wade

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Who was the actor that assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

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John Wilkes Booth

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Who was Lincoln’s vice president?

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The Southern Democrat, Andrew Johnson

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Who was it that Johnson tried to get rid off, violating the Tenure of Office Act, leading to Johnson’s impeachment?

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The Secretary of State, Edwin M. Stanton- a fierce critic of Johnson who was a staunch Radical Republican and would comply with congressional Reconstruction policies.

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Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Who was the small group of confederate ex soldiers that was formed in december 1865

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Who was the Radical Republican thought to replace Johnson

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Benjamin Wade

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Who was chosen as president in 1868 by the Republicans

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General Ulysses S. Grant

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Who was Grant’s vice president in 1868?

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Schuyler Colfax

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Who was the Radical R who originally proposed the Civil Rights Act in 1870

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Charles Sumner- RR senator for Massachusetts

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Who was Grant’s defeated candidate in 1868

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Horatio Seymour

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Who was Grant’s vice president?

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Henry Wilson

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Who was Grant’s defeated candidate?

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Thomas Hendricks

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Who did Grant easily defeat in second presidential election, in 1872?

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Horace Greeley

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In the 1869 Black Friday scandal, which were the two speculators that Grant had become personally associated with?

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James Fisk and Jay Gould

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Who was the Republican governor that 5000 members of the White League rebelled in New Orleans against in 1873?

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William Pitt Kellogg

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Who sent an army to occupy Mexico City in 1863 when America was preoccupied with the Civil War?
Emperor Napoleon III of France
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Who was the brother of the Archduke Maximillian of Austria
Emperor Franz Josef
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Who was Seward's successor as Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish
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What movement was formed in 1867?
The Granger Movement
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Who was Grant's private secretary who was involved in the Whiskey Ring scandal of 1875?
Orville Babcock
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In the 1876 election, who did the Republicans choose?
Rutherford B Hayes
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In the 1876 election, who did the Democrats choose?
Samuel Tilden
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Which two historians in 1950s and 60s believed that the South got off lightly and that the real villains were Johnson and KKK and the real heroes were radical republicans?
Kenneth Stampp and John Hope Franklin
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What was the name of the man who was the secretary for Standard Oil who avoided the laws that stopped people from owning shares in more than one state or more than one company?
Henry Flagler
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Who set up the Standard Oil Company in 1870
John D Rockefeller
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Who grew to dominate the US steel industry, despite growing up as a messenger boy and who wrote the Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie
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Who was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States, being generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm?
Jay Cooke
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Who was the historian that saw Reconstruction as 'The Tragic Era' and described the period of Republican rule as 'Black Reconstruction'?
Professor Dunning, in the early 20th century
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Who was the corrupt mayor who was associated with Tammany Hall?
Boss Tweed
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Who was the journalist that first used the phrase 'Manifest Destiny' in 1845 in an essay entitled 'Annexation' in the Democratic Review?
John L. O'Sullivan
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Who made the first claim under the Homesteads Act for a farm in Nebraska on 1 January 1863?
Daniel Freeman
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What was the name of the man who was sent with his men to round up Sioux and Cheyenne tribes which led to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876?
George Custer
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Who wrote the influential book 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' in 1970 which tells how Native A lost their land, liberty and lives to white settlers?
Dee Brown
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Who wrote a book on the Invasion of America in 1975 where he challenged the original view of a civilising mission and instead sees Westward expansion as material interest and naked expansion?
Francis Jennings
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Which two individuals announced the Monroe Doctrine in 1823?
James Monroe- President John Quincy Adams- Secretary of State
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Who was the US Secretary of State from 1861-69?
William Seward
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Who did France, Britain and Austria attempt to persuade to be more sympathetic to Poland?
Tsar Alexander II
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Who was a puppet emperor?
Maximillian
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Who originally wanted to ask for 2 billion dollars or alternatively the ceding of all of Canada to the USA, as compensation for Britain supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War?
The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Charles Sumner
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In 1872, what was the name of the british PM that Grant agreed with that the dispute concerning the San Juan islands should be settled in Berlin By Kaiser Wilhelm II?
William Gladstone
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Who was the German Kaiser in 1872?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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What was the name of the leader of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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Who was a tribal chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota people in Dakota territory, who fought in Red Clouds War of 1866-68 and was war leader in the Great Sioux War in 1876 (Black Hills War)
Sitting Bull
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Who was chief of the Wallowa Nez Perce (in Oregon) from 1871 and negotiated peace with US army in 1873 for it to be broken by the army in 1877?
Joseph of the Nez Perce/ Chief Joseph
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Who was involved in the Apache Wars which ended in 1874
Geronimo ('One Who Yawns')
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Who was made colonel in 1866 and fought in many Indian wars like Red River War, and Sioux and Cheyenne
General Nelson Miles
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Who was senator for missouri between 1869-1874 and the first german american in the senate
Carl Schurz
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Who's theory of Social Darwinism was laissez faire linked to
Charles Darwin's
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Who was a strong and extreme social darwinist and laissez fair advocate
William Graham Sumner
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Who was the Apache leader who agreed a peace treaty which ended the Apache wars in 1874
Cochise

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