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In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln
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A. insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.
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At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was
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D. three-and-a-half million.
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In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
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C. land reform.
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In 1865, Southern whites defined “freedom” as
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B. controlling their future without Northern interference.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
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A. distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.
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As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,
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B. Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.
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President Abraham Lincoln’s “ten percent” plan for the South referred to
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E. the number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.
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The Wade-Davis Bill
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C. called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
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The story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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A. involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
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As president, Andrew Johnson
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D. offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
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In the 1860s, Black Codes were
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E. designed to give whites control over freedmen.
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The Fourteenth Amendment
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C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
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Race riots in the South during the 1866 elections most helped the political fortunes of
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C. former Southern Whigs.
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In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
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D. required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.
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The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
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E. suffrage
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As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans
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C. proposed abolishing the Court.
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At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
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E. Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.
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During Reconstruction, most “carpetbaggers” were
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D. Northern white veterans who moved to the South.
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During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern
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B. education.
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Black sharecropping
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D. was a very common occupation of former slaves.
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After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from
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D. country stores.
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After the Civil War, most Southern black women
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C. engaged in income-producing activities.
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The Panic of 1873
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E. was the nation’s worst economic depression to that time.
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The “redeemed” governments of the South
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A. saw an end to occupation by federal troops.
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National support for Reconstruction was undermined by
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E. All the answers are correct.
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As president, Rutherford B. Hayes
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B. promised to serve only one term.
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After Reconstruction, political power under Southern “Redeemers”
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A. was very often restricted and conservative.
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Advocates of the “New South”
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C. promoted Southern industry and railroad development.
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In the South, during the last quarter of the nineteenth century
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A. its share of national manufacturing doubled.
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During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture
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E. saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.
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Among his ideas, Booker T. Washington
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B. favored industrial over classical education.
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In his 1895 “Atlanta Compromise” speech, Booker T. Washington
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E. called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.
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The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
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C. racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
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In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
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D. All the answers are correct.
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Jim Crow laws
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A. imposed a system of state-supported segregation.
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In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South
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E. decreased for whites and blacks.
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In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
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D. the crime of lynching.
