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What led to the 14th amendment

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A 3 day scuffle that left 48 African Americans dead

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What was the 14th amendment

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enforcing US Citizenship rights

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Who was the president after Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

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What party was Andrew Johnson

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A Unionist Democrat

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Who refused to sign the 14th amendment

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Andrew Johnson

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What did the reconstruction act allow southern states to do?

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Re-enter the union

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Why was there a struggle with powers following the civil war?

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There was no clarity on who can allow Southern states to re-enter the Union

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What 2 things did Lincoln want Southern states to do before they were allowed to enter the union?

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Approve the 13th amendment, and have 10% of its voters take a loyalty oath

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What did the Wade-Davis Bill require southern states to do before being re-admitted into the union?

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Majority must take an oath of alliegence

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Who was disenfranchised under the Wade-Davis Bill?

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Confederate leaders

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Who rejected the Wade-Davis Bill by a pocket Veto?

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Lincoln

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Who did many unionists blame for Lincoln’s assassination?

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All confederates

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Who was a “common man”

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Johnson

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14
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What did black codes attempt to do?

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Force former slaves back to plantation labor

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What mixed signals did Johnson give

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Said he was against southern planters, but allied with ex-confederate leaders and pardoned them

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Who is this in reference to: “You have become a benefactor of the Southern people”

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Johnson

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17
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What did congress to in December 1865

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Blocked Johnson’s program

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Why was the Freedmen’s bureau created

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to combat racial violence in the South

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What did the Freedmen’s bureau do?

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Give aid to displaced blacks and other war refugees

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What was the name of the act that declared formerly enslaved people as citizens with equal protection and rights of contract, and full access to the courts.

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Civil Rights act of 1866

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What two bills did Johnson veto

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Civil Rights Act, Freedmen’s Bureau

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Who said this: “As long as I am president, it should be a government for white men”

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Johnson

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What happened to the Civil Rights Act and Freedmen’s Bureau

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Congress passed them with a 2/3 majority

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What writing states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” were citizens

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The 14th amendment

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What political party wanted sweeping transformations in the defeated South

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Radical Republicans

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Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans?

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Charles Sumner

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Who was the House’s representative in Pennsylvania who was a passionate advocate of political and economic rights?

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Thaddeus Stevens

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Who was suspended as Secretary of War

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Edwin M. Stanton

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29
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Who replaced Stanton as secretary of war

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Ulysses S. Grant

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What did Johnson misjudge about Grant?

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His loyalty, he was an open enemy of Johnson’s

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What did Grant humbly do?

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Resign so Stanton could resume his place as secretary of war

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32
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How many counts of misconduct against Johnson were brought up in the house

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11

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33
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How close was the senate to convicting Johnson

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One vote short

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Who was the republican’s nomination in the 1868 election

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Who was the democrat’s nomination in the 1868 election

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former New York governor Horatio Seymour

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Who won the 1868 election?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Which amendment protected a male citizen’s right to vote irrespective of are color or “previous conditions of servitude”

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The 15th amendment

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What writing does this quote refer to “The colored people of these Southern states have cast their lot with the government”

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The 15th amendment

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What did many women hope would come with the 15th amendments

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Women’s voting rights

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What was the main reason republicans were against women’s enfranshisment

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Because it would “distract” from race rights

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What party did the American Woman Suffrage Association belong to

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Republicans

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42
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Which women’s right committee took up battle for a federal suffrage amendment

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National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)

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What supreme court case ruled that state legislators could deny women the vote if they wished

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Minor v. Happersett (1875)

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Who said “I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short period as I can; to change that love every day if I please” and what milestone did she break

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Victoria Woodhull, first female stockbroker on wall street

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What was the Beecher-Tilton scandal

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When Woodhull accused a minister of having affairs

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What was the first territory to give women full voting rights

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Wyoming

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47
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to what did the issue of resettlement of blacks fall to

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The Freedmen’s bureau

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What did Johnson’s amnesty plan allow confederates to do

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recover property seized from the war

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What is this quote, said by black protesters, in reference to, “Why do you take away our lands?”

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Johnson ordering to give Sherman lands back to white plantation owners

50
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What did congressional leaders see former slave’s role in an antebellum America?

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wage workers

51
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What was congress reluctant to confiscate

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White-owned plantations

52
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What did most freedpeople resort to doing

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working for their previous owners

53
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What did southern planters replace gang labor with

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wage labor system

54
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What familial culture did African Americans accept

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domesticity

55
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What is the system in which freedmen worked as renters, exchanging their labor for the use of land, house, implements, or seed and fertilizer

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Share cropping

56
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What did Crop-lien laws enforce?

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Lender’s ownership rights to the crop share (middle man)

57
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What American system expanded to India, Egypt, Brazil, and West Africa

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Share cropping

58
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Who exploited share croppers

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Merchants

59
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How many black farmers were share croppers

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3/4

60
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How many white farmers were share croppers

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1/3

61
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What, contrary to Republican hopes, happened to the antebellum south’s economy

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It was stagnant

62
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T/F: Ex-confederates accepted Republican legitimacy

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False

63
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What was described as “strange, abnormal and unfit”

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African Americans in public office

64
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What was a major familial law change in an antebellum south

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Divorce was made more accessible

65
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What 2 groups joined through the Union League, a secret fraternal order

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Black and White Republicans

66
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What was the Union Leauge

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a grassroots wing of Radical Repulicanism

67
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What movement funded schools and supplies to formerly enslaved families to build economic security

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Freedmen’s Aid Movement

68
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What is unique about universities such as His, Toulagoo, and the Hampton Institute

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Focused on training teachers, established by the freedmen’s bureau

69
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Who are these in reference to, said by ex-confederates, “scalawags, carpetbaggers”

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Those who supported African American education

70
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T/F: Many believed slavery only victimized blacks

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False - slavery also victimized poorer whites

71
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What was the name of a steamer pilot who became a war hero after he escaped to the Union Navy, and was later elected into congress

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Robert Smalls

72
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What is it that this white woman in Georgia called “a wonderful reform”

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Southern state legislation that allowed married women to own land and work wage jobs

73
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Who were “crazy to learn”

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Freedpeople

74
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What system allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to labor in mines and other industries

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convict leasing

75
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What does this quote refer to “A man in this state cannot do his whole duty as a minister except he looks out for the political interest of his people”

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Ministers becoming political spokesmen

76
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What do the “children of Israel” refer to

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the special destiny of freepeople according to religious leaders

77
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T/F: Desegregation was not a concern during the reconstruction era

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False

78
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What does this quote refer to: “I don’t want my children to be pounded by … white boys.”

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Concerns of desegregation

79
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Which republican senator wrote a bill proposing desegregation

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Charles Sumner

80
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What law does this quote refer to: “full and equal” access to hurt service and to transportation and public accommodations, irrespective of race

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Civil Rights Act of 1875

81
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What year marked the waning of radical reconstruction

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1874

82
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What state is referenced in the racist book The Prostate State as “black barbarism”

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South Carolina

83
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T/F: Violence against blacks stopped as a result of radical reconstruction

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False

84
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What caused the global recession of 1873

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US and Germany ceased coining silver as money

85
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What type of companies were mainly affected by the depression?

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Steel/Railroad

86
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What did “tramps” instill on American people

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FEAR

87
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What happened to the Freedmen’s Bureau

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Lost majority of its Federal support due to depression

88
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T/F: Corruption was not common in Southern States

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False

89
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What private bank tragically collapsed due to the depression

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The Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company

90
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What did Republicans believed was the government’s responsibility to do after the freedman’s savings and trust company collapsed

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Step in

91
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What is the title given to people who believed in free trade, small government, low property taxes, and litigation of voting rights

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Classic Liberalism

92
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What policy did classic liberalists propose

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laissez faire

93
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What new party formed from classical liberalism

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Liberal Republican

94
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Who was the Liberal Republican candidate in the 1872 election

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Horace Greeley

95
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What was interesting about Greeley’s nomination

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He was nominates by two parties, the liberal republicans and the democrats

96
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Who won the election of 1872

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Ulysses S. Grant

97
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What did both democrats and liberal republicans agree on

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freedmen were unfit to vote

98
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What does this quote refer to “can only mean in plain English the government of ignorance and vice”

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denouncement of universal suffrage

99
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What scheme involved a corporation set up by shareholders to secure government grants at an enormous profit

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Crédit Mobilier

100
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What did many criticize of the second Grant administration

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Surrounded by scandal

101
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What governments were known as illegitimate “regimes” to ex-confederates

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Southern reconstruction governmnets

102
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How did ex-confederates fight black communities

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Using extreme violence

103
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What did southern democrats call their murderous and undemocratic violence toward black power

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“Redemption”

104
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Who founded the Klu Klux Klan

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Nathan Forest

105
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Who were the first targets of the Klu Klux Klan

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Republican government of Tennessee

106
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T/F: The Klu Klux Klan was an extremist group that did not represent the beliefs of majority of Democrats, and acted on its own

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False

107
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Why were Enforcement Laws made?

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To combat the violence in the south

108
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What laws authorized federal prosecutions, military intervention, and martial law to suppress terrorist activity

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Enforcement laws

109
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What happened in the congressional election of 1874

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Democrats took half of Republican seats

110
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What does this quote refer to: “The election is not merely a victory but a revolution”

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The democrats great success in the 1874 congressional election

111
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What did Grant start refusing to do

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give military aid to souther Republicans

112
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What did the Slaughter-House Cases do

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undercut the power of the Fourteenth amendment

113
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What cases struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875

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Civil Rights Cases (1883)

114
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Who was the Republican nominee in the 1876 election

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Rutherford B. Hayes

115
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Who was the democratic nominee in the 1876 election

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Samuel J. Tilden

116
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What did both candidates of the 1876 favor

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home rule for the south

117
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How was the 1876 election decided

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Congress

118
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Why was the election of 1876 controversial?

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Due to a gap in the constitution

119
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Who won the 1876 election

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Hayes

120
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What caused the end of reconstruction

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the new president ordered union soldiers to leave the south

121
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What was the justification for violent assumptions of power in the South

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that the previous governments were illegitimate

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