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| The ones pushing for more reforms in the South in favor of African Americans were the |
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| All of the following were part of the Fourteenth Amendment except it |
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| funded the Confederate war debt. |
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| witnessed the election of southerners to important congressional positions. |
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| During the Reconstruction period |
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| the illiteracy rate among southern blacks was reduced significantly. |
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| The majority of southern Republican voters were |
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| Southern whites regarded "Carpetbaggers" as |
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| agents of an army of occupation. |
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| Ulysses S. Grant was guilty of |
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| unwise appointments of public officials. |
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| Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877? |
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| appointment of a southern vice president |
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| Which of the following is characteristic of the post-Civil War southern labor system? |
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| The new system of sharecropping evolved. |
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| One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved |
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| The idea of redistributing plantation land to freedmen was tried first by |
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| The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to |
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| prevent blacks from voting. |
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| The Compromise of 1877 signified |
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| the end of Reconstruction. |
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| The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to |
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| destroy the Republican Party in the South. |
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| Radical Republicans objected to Lincoln's initial Reconstruction plan because it |
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| restored the political rights of white men who had fought against the Union. |
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| Congressional laws in 1870 and 1871 did all of the following except |
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| give the president the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. |
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| All of the following statements regarding the Fifteenth Amendment are true except it |
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| was popular among northern women. |
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| The new state constitutions drawn up in the South from 1867 to 1868 |
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| included universal male suffrage. |
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| Ulysses S. Grant depended on this group for his presidential victory in 1868. |
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| The President could use federal troops to suppress resistance to federal law through the |
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| Ulysses S. Grant's presidency is known as an era of |
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| scandal and corruption at all levels of government. |
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| Members of Abraham Lincoln's own party opposed his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction because |
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| it left the door open to restrictive Southern measures to control former slaves. |
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| Which of the following is true of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial? |
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| The Senate sat as a court to try Johnson on charges drawn up by the House. |
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| Andrew Johnson was all of the following except |
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| a strong supporter of the planter aristocracy. |
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| The main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to |
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| oversee relations between former masters and slaves. |
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| white, southern-born Republicans. |
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| Which of the following is not true of black political activity during Reconstruction? |
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| More than 50 percent of high state and federal offices were held by blacks. |
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| The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except |
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| guarantee the Confederate debt. |
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| required Senate approval before the president could remove a cabinet member. |
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