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| During Reconstruction, churches became the principal institutions that African Americans fully controlled. True or False? |
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Democrats called those white Southerners who joined the Republican Party scalawags.
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Robert G. Fitzgerald was the first African American to win election as a U.S senator.
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Very few former slaves were able to take part in sharecropping because they could never raise enough cash to rent land from planter.
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Carpetbaggers were those who left their homes after the war and moved to the South, where they wre often scorned as dishonest business people.
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In the system known as tenant farming, landowners didvided their land and gave each worker a few acres plus seed and tools. In return, the worker gave the landowner a portion of the harvested crop.
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| Union commander who seized New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Natchez |
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| Southern sympathizer and actor who assassinated Presiden Lincoln |
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| Hero at Vicksburg who became commander of all Union armies in 1864 |
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| General responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run |
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| Union commander who burned a path of destruction through Georgia |
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| Confederate commander who opposed secession but sided with his beloved state of Virginia |
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| Union general who was eventually fired by Lincoln for having the "slows" |
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| President of the Confederacy |
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| Republican who won the presidency of 1860 |
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| Union nurse who cared for the sick and wounded on the front lines |
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| Union general who promised freed slaves who followed his army "40 acres and a mule" |
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| The first African-American U.S. senator |
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| President who vetoed important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation |
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| Democratic candidate for president in 1876 who won the popular vote but lost the election |
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| President who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction |
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| Secretary of war whose firing led to Andrew Johnson's impeachment |
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| House representatives who was the leader of the Radical Republicans |
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| President whose administration was plagued with scandal |
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| Republican who became president in 1876 through a deal between Party leaders |
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| New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election |
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| Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also _____. |
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| The civilian population of the South |
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| During the war, _____ did not contribute to the food shortage in the South |
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| Bad weather causing poor crops |
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| ____ was not part of the Union's three-part plan to conquer the South |
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| Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union |
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| The Battle of Gettysburg was not _____. |
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| The battle that cut the Confederacy in two |
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| ____ helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864 |
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| Union victories in the South |
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| One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it _____. |
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| Gave a moral purpose to the war |
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| While serving in the Union army, African Americans faced all of the following except _____. |
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| Excessively high income taxes |
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| Clara Barton worked as a ______ in the Civil War |
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| Lincoln suspended _____ to deal with dissent in the Union states |
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| The writ of habeas corpus |
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| Because it was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, Grant focused on capturing ______. |
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| This led to economic depression and disputes over currency policies. |
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| This group strongly supported Reconstruction |
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| As the Democratic candidate for president in the 1876 election, this man won the popular vote but failed to gain the presidency |
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| Democrats used this term to describe their return to power in the South |
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| This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office |
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| This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office |
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| This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office |
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| The power of this group was severly weakened by its ties to political corruption, severe economic problems, and decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in the 1870's |
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| Democrats and Republicans in Congress agreed to this, which decided the outcome of a presidential election and effectively ended Reconstruction in the South |
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| Although this man was considered honest, many of the people he appointed to office were dishonest and corrupt |
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| This is what Southern Democrats managed to achieve after the 1876 election. It allowed them to restrict African-American rights, cut taxes, and wipe out social programs |
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| During Reconstruction, this white supremacist group committed acts of violence against African Americans to keep them from participating in politics and acheiving economic progress |
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| In 1866, Congress overrides the presidential vetoes and adopts the _____, providing a constitutional basis for the Civil Righs Act and guaranteeing citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States |
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| In 1867, the president's refusal to cooperate with Congress's plans for _____ leads Congress to impeach him. At the end of his eleven-day trial, he is found not guilty. |
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| In 1866, Congress passes the _____, giving African Americans citizenship and forbidding states from passing discriminatory lawas known as ______. |
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| Black Codes; Civil Rights Act |
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| In 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln brings _______ to the presidency. He announces his plan for _____, calling for states to be readmitted to the Union once they have declared secession illegal, sworn allegiance to the Union, repudiated Confederate debts and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment |
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| Reconstruction; Andrew Johnson |
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| In 1867, Congress passes the _____, abolishing the governments formed in the former Confederate states and dividing those states into five military districts. this act is promptly vetoed by _____. |
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| Andrew Johnson; Reconstruction Act |
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| In 1868, ______ is elected president. After the election, the ______ in Congress, fearing that Southern whites might try to place limits on African-American voting rights, introduce the _____, which states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or having been enslaved. |
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| Ulysses S. Grant; Radical Republicans; Fifteenth Amendment |
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| In 1866, the president betoes the Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act leading moderate Republicans to join forces with the _______. |
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| In 1865, Congress votes to expand the _____, which assists former slaves by providing clothing and food |
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| Why was David Farragut's victory in April 1862 so important? |
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| It advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River |
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| In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? |
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| Which of the following abolished slavery in the North? |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation |
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| What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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| To free slaves in Union slave states |
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| What was Clara Barton's role in the Civil War? |
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| Which of the following was not an important advantage of ironclad ships? |
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| They could travel much faster than other ships |
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| When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal? |
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| Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War? |
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| It made the South give up the idea of invading the North |
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| What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter? |
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| He did not want to anger Republicans and slave states still in the Union |
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| Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address? |
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| "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here." |
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