history ch 15 – Flashcards
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In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln
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insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist
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In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom' as
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The Freedmen's Bureau
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distributed food to millions of Southern blacks
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President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to
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the number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government
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The story of teh assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration
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In the 1860's Black Codes were
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designed to give whites control over freedmen
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In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
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required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males
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The Tenure of Office Act
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was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
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During Reconstruction, the term "Scalawags"referred to
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Southern white Republicans
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During Reconstruction, the Southern African-American officeholders
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underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South
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During Reconstruction , the Southern school system
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eventually reached 40% of all black citizens
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Black sharecropping
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was a very common occupation of former slaves
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During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked
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significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery
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In the South, the crop-lien system
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encouraged the planting of cash crops
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In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
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entered the White House with no political experience
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The Panic of 1873
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was the nation's worst economic depression to that time
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The Alabama claims
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involved complaints by the United States against England
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Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871
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was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South
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The elections of 1876 saw
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the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected
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Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if
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the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks
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Advocates of the "New South"
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promoted Southern industry and railroad development
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During the last quarter of the nineteeth century, Southern agriculture
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saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system
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In his 1895 'Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington
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called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation
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In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict voting rights came from
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In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South
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decreased for whites and blacks
