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The term Reconstruction refers to the

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period immediately after the civil war

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The escaped slave who captured a Confederate steamship and later went on to become a U.S. congressman was?

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Robert Smalls

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A minimal Reconstruction policy was favored by?

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Lincoln

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President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans were committed to?

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Speedy reconstruction and minimum changes in the south.

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Most congressional Republicans believed?

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former confederates thought slavery was wrong blacks shouldn't be constricted

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Lincoln's response to the Wade-Davis Bill was to?

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Stop it with a pocket veto.

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The man who became president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination was?

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Andrew Johnson

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As early as 1863, Lincoln proposed a plan for restoring southern state governments based of what percent of the voting population of 1860 taking a loyalty oath to the Union?

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10

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Which one of the following is an INCORRECT match?

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thirteenth amendment- abolished slavery Wade-Davis Bill- embodied presidential reconstruction fourteenth amendment- made african americans citizens tenure of office act- Johnson violated fifteenth amendment- prohibited that you can't deny right to vote based on race, color, etc.

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Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oat of loyalty to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?

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Wade-Davis Bill

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President Andrew Johnson was

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A war democrat, not a great humanitarian, from Tennessee, unionist southerner, elected in Tennessee even though supported union

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Which one of the following constitutional amendments abolished slavery?

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thirteenth amendment

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Andrew Johnson believed that Reconstruction should

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guarantee southern ruling class would not regain power

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In implementing Johnson's plan, southern states did each of the following?

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repealed secession, intend repudiate, confederate debt, ratify 13th amendment, passed black codes

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Johnson's Reconstruction plan

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failed to break power of planters cities

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Black Codes showed that

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Southerners wanted blacks to return to their positions as servants

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The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the

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civil rights act of 1866

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The congressional alternative to Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program was the

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fourteenth amendment

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The Fourteenth Amendment stipulated that any state that denied the right to vote to African Americans would

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lose congresional representation reduced preportionally

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The Radical Republicans believed

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that the rights of freedmen will be protected by federal government

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Which of the following constitutional amendments attempted to give civil rights to the former slaves?

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fourteenth amendment

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Which of the following constitutional amendments was opposed by Andrew Johnson

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fourteenth amendment

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In the congressional elections of 1866

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the results served as a referendum for the 14th amendment

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Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were

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Radical leaders in congress

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Which one of the following individuals was not a radical republican?

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was: sumner, stevens, stanton, julian not: Johnson

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The South's refusal to ratify the fourteenth amendment

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forced republicans to abolish existing southern governments

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The Reconstruction Acts

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were actually less severe retreat from true radicalism

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The First Reconstruction Act of 1867

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placed the south under military rule

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President Andrew Johnson was opposed by

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Radical Republicans

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Andrew Johnson was indicted by the House for his violation of the

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Tenure of office act

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Andrew Johnson's acquittal on impeachment charges resulted from

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the fears of being too much for congress

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During Reconstruction, African Americans

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divided/segregated communities

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For the South, recovery from the devastation of the Civil War

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would be long and hard, dependent on a new economic system

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The legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans was

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poverty and discrimination

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By the end of 1865, most freedmen had

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returned to work on plantations

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The federal agency designed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom was known as the

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Freedmen Bureau

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Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern coalition supporting Radical Reconstruction?

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white planters

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Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called

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carpet baggers

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Most southern African Americans who held political power during Reconstruction

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concentrated their efforts on educational and political reform

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The small number of African Americans elected to state or national office during the Reconstruction demonstrated on the average

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more integrity and competence than their white counter parts

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Ulysses S. Grant was not able to

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resolve the problems of the time

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The political party that kept the money issue alice into the 1880s was

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Greenbacks labor party

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What amendment to the Constitution states that no person could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

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15th amendment

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Which of the following groups was disappointed by the Fifteenth Amendment

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feminists

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The organization that symbolized most vividly the "white backlash" of the Reconstruction era was

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kkk

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The warning of the radical organization shown above was aimed at all of the following groups

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blacks, carpet baggers, radical republicans, scallowags, redeemers, freedmens bureau, agency officials

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Liberal Republicans endorsed

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reform of civilization

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Who was a prominent Liberal Republican

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Carl Schurz

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Which of the following was not a scandal during the Grant Administration?

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was: credit mobilier scandal, "whiskey ring" scandal, bell rap coverup, Indian trading post not: teapot dome

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The result of the disputed election of 1876 was significant because it

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meant it was the end of reconstruction

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The celebration of freed African Americans over their hard-won rights was short lived due to the white southern state legislatures passing of the

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Jim Crow Laws

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The Redeemers believed

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in the principles of Laissez fair and white supremacy

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