Unit 2 Post Test: 11-21 – Flashcards
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Which was NOT a reason the North began to lose interest in the Southern Reconstruction by the early 1870s?
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Northerners were growing increasingly hostile to President Johnson, and no longer wanted to support his agenda.
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Why did President Johnson deviate from his original plan of punishing Southern aristocrats by making it difficult for states to reenter the Union?
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Johnson believed that the Union was paramount and southern states should be represented.
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What were the Enforcement Acts?
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Acts recommended by Grant and imposed by Congress to try to protect black voters from intimidation and violence
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What was the purpose of the poll tax?
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to make it difficult for African Americans to vote
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The Jim Crow era directly followed what period in U.S. history?
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Reconstruction
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Which is most true of Jim Crow laws?
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They were enacted mostly in the South.
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Which best describes de jure segregation?
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segregation that is sanctioned by the law
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Which best describes popular sovereignty?
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the ability of a state or territory to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
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Which component of the Compromise of 1850 most enraged Northerners?
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the Fugitive Slave Act
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Which describes a significant difference between the North and the South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
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The North favored a protectionist tarriff on foreign goods, while the South did not.
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Which best describes how slaves were regarded in the South in the pre-Civil War years?
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as valuable property
