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1. The event that touched off the process of secession for the majority of southern states was A) John Brown's raid B) antiunion riots in Baltimore C) the bombardment of Fort Sumter D) "Bleeding Kansas" E) the election of Lincoln to the presidency

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E

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2. The Crittenden Compromise contained all of the following provisions except A) the preservation of slavery in Washington, D.C. B) a constitutional amendment to guarantee the continued existence of slavery in the current slave states C) the repeal of fugitive slave laws D) the reestablishment of the Missouri Compromise line E) the prohibition of slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line

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D

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3. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln laid down all the following basic principles except A) no state could leave the Union B) acts of force or violence to support secession were insurrectionary C) the government would hold federal property in the seceded states D) the institution of slavery would not be allowed to continue anywhere in the United States E) the South must not assail federal property

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D

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4. The Civil War began when A) the North fired on Southerners surrounding Fort Pickens B) the South fired on Northern forces in Fort Sumter C) the North sent troops to invade Virginia D) the South cut off Northern supplies near Manassas E) the South sent troops to invade Maryland

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B

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5. Among historians, the key question about the Civil War was A) was the war inevitable? B) who started the war? C) could the South have won? D) why did the war last so long? E) what were the motives of the South?

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A`

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6. At the outset of the war, the North enjoyed all of the following advantages except A) a much larger manpower reserve B) a more advanced industrial system C) a better transportation system D) twice as many rail lines as the South E) a stronger will to fight

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E

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7. The difficulties of the Union war effort included A) insufficient number of soldiers B) timid, inept leadership in the White House C) extended supply lines across hostile territory D) Confederate superiority in weapons technology E) long lines of communication in enemy territory

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C

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8. Revisionist historians, such as James G. Randall, argued that the Civil War was caused by A) smuggling of slaves from the West Indies B) fundamental sectional differences C) inept political leadership D) the extreme brutality of slavery E) constitutional disputes

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C

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9. During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress A) passed a federal income tax amendment to the Constitution B) created a national banking system that could issue national bank notes C) granted federal lands to the states to help finance hospitals D) chartered corporations to build the first transcontinental turnpike E) refused to focus expansion in the West

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B

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10. During the Civil War, the largest source of revenue for the U.S. government was A) confiscating rebel property B) printing paper money C) collecting taxes D) borrowing E) personal donations

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D

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11. Of the over two million men who served in the Union armies, the largest number were men who A) were drafted into service B) volunteered for service C) were in the army at the start of the war D) were paid a bounty to serve E) had been dedicated abolitionists

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B

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12. The victims of mob violence in the New York City draft riots of 1863 were mainly A) blacks B) Irish immigrants C) Confederate prisoners of war D) government officials enforcing the draft E) people with business ties to the South

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A

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13. President Lincoln responded to opposition to the war effort by A) ordering suspension of civil liberties in a few extreme cases B) upholding the Bill of Rights in all cases C) prohibiting election activities of the opposition party D) engaging in widespread suspension of civil liberties E) banning the Democratic party

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D

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14. In the presidential election of 1864, the Democrats nominated A) George B. McClellan B) Andrew Johnson C) Abraham Lincoln D) Thaddeus Stevens E) Clement L. Vallandigham

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A

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15. The Democratic platform of 1864 called for A) vigorous prosecution of the war B) a truce in the Civil War C) immediate emancipation of all slaves D) the sale by auction of captured rebel property E) an increase in defense spending

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B

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16. Charles Sumner, Benjamin Wade, and Thaddeus Stevens were A) Copperheads B) war Democrats C) Lincoln Republicans D) fire-eaters E) radical Republicans

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E

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17. The Emancipation Proclamation freed A) all the slaves of the South B) only runaway slaves who had reached the North C) only the slaves of the South D) all the slaves of the South except those already under Union control E) only those slaves contributing to the Confederate war effort

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D

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18. During the Civil War, the Northern economy changed in that the A) service industries grew B) coal industry increased production C) railroad industry suffered much wartime destruction D) purchasing power of workers increased significantly E) banking system became less centralized

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B

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19. In the North, the Civil War had the effect on women of A) reinforcing the traditional sex role B) creating support for female suffrage C) hastening the conversion of nursing into a female occupation D) opening the professions to large numbers of women in all fields E) creating an opportunity for women to serve in special units of the armed forces

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c

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0. During the Civil War, the U.S. Sanitary Commission was composed of A) military personnel B) street sweepers and refuse haulers C) a volunteer nursing corps D) grave diggers and cremation technicians E) ex-slaves who served as a supply corps

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C

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21. The Confederacy financed its war effort primarily by A) borrowing B) collecting taxes C) printing paper money D) confiscating Union property E) taking loans from European powe

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C

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22. The greatest source of division in the South was A) the doctrine of states' rights B) disagreement over the war C) conscription exemptions D) the issue of slavery E) monetary policy

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A

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23. The Confederate war effort was A) highly centralized on a national basis B) somewhat centralized, but greatly hampered by state governments protecting their states' rights C) conducted almost entirely by the individual states D) run by a smoothly functioning combination of the national and state governments E) most popular in mountainous regions of the backcountry

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B

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24. During the Civil War, the economy of the South A) was stimulated greatly by wartime production B) experienced a net gain, as wartime growth was greater than destruction C) suffered a net loss, as destruction exceeded the substantial growth D) flourished as a result of trade with England E) was devastated by the widespread destruction

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E

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25. During the Civil War, Southern women played an especially important part A) as typists and telegraph operators B) as managers of farms and plantations C) as a supply corps for Confederate forces D) as members of auxiliary units of the armed forces E) as replacements for men in the South's light industry

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B

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26. As the commander in chief of the Union army, President Lincoln was A) brilliant; the best military mind of his time B) highly competent but not infallible C) about equal to his confederate counterpart D) incompetent; a serious burden to the Union forces E) unable to take part in military decision making

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B

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27. Lincoln's most successful general was A) Winfield Scott B) George B. McClellan C) Ulysses S. Grant D) Henry W. Hallack E) Irvin McDowell

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C

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28. General Ulysses S. Grant was known for his A) subtle tactical genius B) reluctance to spend lives in bloody assaults C) aggressive assault on Confederate resources D) mild mannered behavior E) defensive style of warfare

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C

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29. Sea power played an especially important role in the Civil War in the form of the A) Confederate raids on Northern shipping B) Union blockade of the Confederate coast C) transportation of rebel troops and supplies on steamboats D) ironclad ships that appeared during the war E) Confederates' ability to control all Southern ports

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B

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30. During the American Civil War, Great Britain adopted the policy of A) extending full diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy B) cooperating fully with the U.S. government C) staying completely out of the conflict D) remaining neutral, while permitting limited aid to the Confederates E) supplying the Confederacy with troops and arms

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D

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31. During the Civil War, Kansas and Missouri were A) away from the fighting, thus largely peaceful B) the scene of four major battles C) ravaged by guerrilla bands from both sides D) attacked by Indians allied with the Confederacy E) uninvolved in the political issues of the war

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C

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32. The death toll in the American Civil War was A) far greater than that of any other American war B) second only to the U.S. dead in World War II C) moderately high; about equal to that of the Vietnam War D) higher than that of the Revolutionary War but still moderately low E) small in comparison with previous wars

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A

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33. Technological advances in arms and artillery in the era of the Civil War resulted in A) fortifications and trenches no longer being used B) the Confederates having better weapons than the Union C) battles that featured almost inconceivable slaughter D) generals refusing to use fearsome new artillery guns E) innovative battle strategies that reduced the likelihood of death

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C

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34. The First Battle of Bull Run ended in A) the Union occupation of Richmond B) the Confederate capture of Washington, D.C. C) a stunning rout of the Union army D) the annihilation of the rebel forces E) a Confederate retreat into western Virginia

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C

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35. The first major Southern city captured by Union forces was A) Richmond B) Atlanta C) Lexington D) Charleston E) New Orleans

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E

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36. By the end of 1862, the Union had captured large parts of A) Texas B) South Carolina C) Mississippi D) Virginia E) Tennessee

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E

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37. The 1862 Union campaigns in Virginia A) led to major Union victories B) resulted in a frustrating and bloody stalemate C) were of little consequence since little fighting occurred D) were a major disaster for the Union E) displayed the military genius of George B. McClellan

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B

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38. The Battle of Antietam was A) the first Civil War battle B) the bloodiest single day's fighting of the war C) a victory for General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia D) a proof to President Lincoln of the inspired leadership of General George B. McClellan E) Robert E. Lee's greatest victory in the war

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B

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39. During 1863, the Union forces achieved decisive victories that effectively sealed the fate of the Confederacy in the battles of A) Bull Run and Shiloh B) Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville C) Vicksburg and Gettysburg D) Petersburg and Atlanta E) Chancellorsville and Petersburg

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C

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40. The victorious Union commanders who led the final major campaigns of the war were A) Johnston and Lee B) McClellan and Hooker C) Beauregard and Jackson D) Sherman and Grant E) Grant and McClellan

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B

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41. The general who orchestrated the "March to the Sea" was A) Robert E. Lee B) Ulysses S. Grant C) Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson D) William T. Sherman E) Irvin McDowell

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D

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42. On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at A) Washington, D.C. B) Richmond C) Appomattox Courthouse D) Durham, North Carolina E) Petersburg, Virginia

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C

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43. The inventor of modern baseball was A) Abner Doubleday B) Kenesaw Mountain Landes C) Alexander Cartwright D) John McGraw E) Henry Chadwick

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C

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44. The popularity of baseball received its greatest boost from A) wealthy American entrepreneurs B) the American Civil War C) the Mexican-American War D) the "industrial boom" of the 1870s E) American expansion in the West

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B

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45. The ethno-cultural group of historians studying the Civil War was led by A) Charles Beard B) William Gienapp C) Alfred Russell Wallace D) Eric Foner E) Eugene Genovese

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B

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46. Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War was viewed by the victorious Northerners as A) a means by which the industrial capacity of the South could be rebuilt B) the best means by which poor whites could be given positions of power in the South C) the only way the South could be prevented from restoring their pre-Civil War society D) a necessary evil, to be done away with as soon as possible E) a chance to reestablish the power of the planter aristocracy

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C

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47. The era of Reconstruction can best be described as A) a period of vicious and tyrannical rule of the South by the North B) a time of drastic reform C) an era of growth for the Southern middle class D) the physical rebuilding of the South E) an important first step toward civil rights

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E

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48. When the Confederate armies surrendered, A) a peace treaty was signed between the North and the South officially ending the hostilities B) Lincoln would allow no formal peace treaty to be signed between the Confederate and federal governments C) each seceding state had to sign a separate peace treaty with the federal government D) only those seceding states that were still at war with the United States in 1865 had to sign a peace treaty E) Lincoln supported immediate readmission of Southern states

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B

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49. In the aftermath of emancipation, most African-Americans wanted all of the following improvements in their lives except A) independence from white control B) legal protection of their rights C) their own cultural institutions, such as churches D) the opportunity for social advancement E) desegregated schools and fraternal societies

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E

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50. The Amendment to the Constitution that ended the practice of slavery throughout the United States was the A) Twelfth B) Thirteenth C) Fourteenth D) Fifteenth E) Sixteenth

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B

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51. Radical Republicans in Congress believed that reconstructing the South should include all of the following measures except A) the punishment of civil and military leaders of the Confederacy B) the disenfranchisement of large numbers of Southern whites C) the permanent occupation of the South by the Union Army D) the protection of the legal rights of blacks E) the confiscation of property from wealthy Southerners

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C

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52. Republicans Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner urged that A) the government be lenient in dealing with the defeated South B) reconstruction should not include the right to vote for blacks C) President Johnson be given unchecked powers D) former Confederates be given blanket amnesty E) large numbers of Southern whites be disenfranchised

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E

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53. President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction can best be described as A) mild B) harsh C) poorly planned D) popular with Radical Republicans E) radical

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a

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54. The Freedmen's Bureau eventually had all of the following powers except A) distributing food B) establishing schools C) settling labor disputes D) assisting poor whites E) creating a welfare system

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E

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55. Before the end of the Civil War, the Reconstruction plan advanced by Congress in opposition to Lincoln's "Ten Percent Plan" was the A) Sumner Act of 1864 B) Wade-Davis Bill C) Compromise of 1864 D) Military Reconstruction Act E) Crittenden Compromise

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B

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56. To many Northerners, the murder of Abraham Lincoln A) had little effect on the way that they viewed Reconstruction B) ensured that Andrew Johnson would present a radical reconstruction plan C) indicated that there were divisions within the Republican party D) seemed to indicate a large conspiracy on the part of the defeated South E) was believed to have been committed by someone other than John Wilkes Booth

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D

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57. Instead of using the term Reconstruction for his program for the South, Andrew Johnson called it A) realignment B) readmittance C) restoration D) redemption E) reclamation

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C

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58. The unique feature of President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was A) amnesty for former Republicans B) individual pardons for wealthy Southerners C) ratification of the abolition of slavery D) appointment of provisional governors E) suffrage for all male ex-slaves

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B

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59. Radical Reconstruction officially began when A) Lincoln was assassinated B) Congress reconvened in December, 1865 C) Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 D) blacks were given the vote in the South E) Jefferson Davis was released from prison

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B

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60. The purpose of the Black Codes was to A) guarantee white supremacy in the South B) protect newly freed blacks C) prevent former slaves from moving to the North D) guarantee black civil rights E) promote wider voting rights in the South

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A

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61. During 1865 and 1866, Northern opinion grew hostile toward the South because of all of the following developments except A) the passage of the Black Codes B) the election of former Confederates to Congress C) the bloody race riots in several Southern cities D) the assassination of a number of Southern Republican governors E) the reluctance of Southern conventions to abolish slavery

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D

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62. The first Civil Rights Act passed by Congress in 1866 A) all of the answers below B) declared blacks to be citizens of the United States C) empowered the federal government to intervene in a state's affairs to protect civil rights D) was vetoed by President Johnson E) restricted former Confederate officials' ability to hold office

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A

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63. The first official definition of citizenship was included in A) the Civil Rights Act of 1866 B) President Johnson's 1867 Address to the Nation C) the Fourteenth Amendment D) the Fifteenth Amendment E) the Emancipation Proclamation

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C

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64. All of the following actions by Andrew Johnson angered Congress except A) the veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 B) the appointment of a Southerner to the Supreme Court C) the dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton D) the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Act E) the consistent resistance of radical Republican ideas

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B

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65. The Republican Congress responded to the establishment of Black Codes in the South by A) nominating Charles Sumner for president B) extending the life of the Freedmen's Bureau C) withdrawing Union troops from the South D) offering to back off passage of the Civil Rights Bill E) jailing governors from every Southern state

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B

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66. The former Confederate state that escaped most of Radical Reconstruction was A) Texas B) Tennessee C) Kentucky D) Florida E) Alabama

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B

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67. The Congressional Reconstruction Acts of 1867 A) formed the Freedman's Bureau B) divided the South into military districts C) excluded blacks from voting D) allowed former Confederates to hold public office E) excluded white Southerners from voting

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B

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68. The provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment gave the right to vote to A) Chinese B) women C) Indians D) blacks E) former Confederate leaders

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D

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69. The Tenure of Office Act was designed to A) protect the jobs of Congressional aides B) initiate civil service reform C) limit the number of times a Congressman could be reelected D) prohibit the president from removing cabinet members without the Senate's approval E) encourage the election of black public officials

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D

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70. When Andrew Johnson was impeached, the House had A) recessed for the summer B) accused him of a crime C) convicted him of a crime D) removed him from office E) refused to accuse him of specific wrongdoing

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B

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71. After the House impeached Andrew Johnson, his trial in the Senate ended in A) a conviction B) an acquittal C) a deadlock D) his resignation E) his removal from office

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B

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72. Republican Reconstruction governments were supported by all of the following groups except A) scalawags B) redeemers C) freedmen D) carpetbaggers E) Southern African-Americans

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E

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73. Black freedmen attempted to exercise their rights by all of the following methods except A) participating in politics B) organizing their own religious groups C) striving to obtain an education D) serving as delegates to constitutional conventions E) advocating their colonization in Africa

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C

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74. During Reconstruction, no Southern black was elected to A) the U.S. Senate B) the U.S. Congress C) a state governorship D) a state lieutenant governorship E) the U.S. House of Representatives

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C

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75. The most positive accomplishment of Reconstruction in the South was A) improving public education B) eliminating corruption in state governments C) securing civil rights for blacks D) reducing the power of the Southern elite E) resolving racial prejudice in the South

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A

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6. During Reconstruction, educational reform was promoted by all of the following groups except A) the Freedmen's Bureau B) private Northern philanthropic organizations C) Southern Democrats D) Northern Republicans E) Southern African-Americans

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C

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. By the end of Reconstruction, the majority of Southern blacks A) owned their own land B) worked for wages C) were tenant farmers D) had migrated to the North E) moved to cities in the North

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C

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78. During Reconstruction, the per capita income for Southern blacks A) increased substantially B) increased moderately C) remained about the same D) decreased substantially E) decreased gradually

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A

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79. The crop lien system that developed in the South during Reconstruction involved all of the following factors except A) it forced the farmers to rely on the growth of cash crops B) it contributed to the decline of Southern agriculture C) it featured high interest rates D) blacks worked fewer hours than they had during slavery E) it was administered primarily by country banks

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E

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80. Ulysses S. Grant is considered to have been A) a good, but not quite great, president B) a failure as president C) a good president who had bad advisors D) an adequate, if unimaginative, president E) a president who diminished corruption in Washington

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b

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81. Grant's administration developed substantial opposition because A) he vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1867 B) he opposed the Reconstruction policies of Congress C) he tried to destroy the party bosses and their machines D) he allowed corruption to develop in his administration E) he ordered the withdrawal of troops from the South

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d

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82. A key factor in Ulysses S. Grant's victory in the presidential election of 1868 was A) his experience as a party boss during the Civil War B) Grant's new popularity with white Southerners C) the huge black vote for Grant in the South D) the lack of bitterness expressed in the campaign E) Grant's long career of political experience

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C

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83. The Credit Mobilier scandal involved A) fraudulent construction contracts for the Union Pacific Railroad B) illegal tax stamps for whiskey distillers C) bribery by employees of the Indian Bureau to retain their jobs D) favorable interest rates for land speculators E) illegal sale of government bonds

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A

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84. The Panic of 1873 A) lasted for eight years B) affected the South more than other sections of the country C) finally ended with the recall of all greenbacks from circulation D) was the worst depression that the United States had experienced up until that time E) resulted in the election of Ulysses S. Grant

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D

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85. The supporters of greenbacks wanted to A) raise the value of the dollar B) increase the value of debts C) inflate the currency D) keep the country on the gold standard E) decrease the amount of currency in the economy

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C

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86. The Specie Resumption Act of 1875 provided that greenbacks would be A) replaced with war bonds B) inflated to help debtors C) declared illegal D) redeemed for gold certificates E) designated as currency in the South only

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D

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87. The Alabama Claims were monetary claims by A) Americans against the British B) Americans against the French C) the federal government against the state of Alabama D) whites against blacks who expropriated their land E) blacks who demanded war reparations

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A

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88. To intimidate and subjugate newly freed blacks during Reconstruction, Southern whites used all of the following tactics except A) whites forced the blacks into ghettos so that they could be better controlled B) whites formed secret and quasi-secret organizations that used terror to prevent the blacks from voting C) local merchants denied credit to blacks who voted Republican D) planters refused to rent land to Republican blacks E) redeemer governments encouraged the end of black suffrage

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a

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