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Black officeholders during Reconstruction:


A) were extremely rare.
B) were entirely carpetbaggers and scalawags.
C) helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.
D) were limited to local offices.
E) demonstrated that whites had lost all of their political power in the South.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Southern Republicans during Reconstruction:


A) excluded former Confederates from their ranks.
B) established the South's first state-supported schools.
C) redistributed most former plantation lands to freedmen and poor whites.
D) helped elect African-American governors in four states.
E) ran the most corrupt governments in American history.

F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

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When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:


A) signed it, creating an irreparable breach between himself and the Republicans.
B) argued that it discriminated against whites.
C) contended that it gave too much authority to the states.
D) won widespread public approval for his response.
E) suggested that it did not go far enough to secure racial equality.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.

A) True
B) False

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The Civil War was devastating to the South, which lost nearly one-fifth of its white adult male population.

A) True
B) False

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MATCHING -Edwin Stanton


A) second black U.S. senator
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
C) Presidential Reconstruction
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate
E) The Prostrate State
F) Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G) Whiskey Ring
H) ended Reconstruction
I) National Woman Suffrage Association
J) Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K) first black U.S. senator
L) secretary of war

M) A) and I)
N) D) and L)

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Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?


A) Johnson's lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, so several voted to acquit him.
B) No one would testify against him.
C) Leading Radical Republican Benjamin Wade brilliantly managed the president's defense.
D) Ulysses Grant urged Republicans to acquit Johnson because convicting him might hurt Grant's chances in the presidential election.
E) Many feared a constitutional crisis because, without a vice president in office, no one knew who would succeed Johnson as president.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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In Mississippi in 1875, white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted and murdered Republicans.

A) True
B) False

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Feminists

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All of the following are true of passage of the Fifteenth Amendment EXCEPT:


A) it split the feminist movement into two major organizations.
B) the Democratic Party bitterly opposed it.
C) it led the American Anti-Slavery Society to disband.
D) it opened the door to voting restrictions not based on race.
E) it aided the election of Ulysses Grant to the presidency in 1868.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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MATCHING -Special Field Order 15


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) D) and F)
N) G) and J)

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The Slaughterhouse Cases are an example of the Supreme Court whittling away at the freedoms gained by the blacks during Reconstruction.

A) True
B) False

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Freedmen's Bureau

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Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black:


A) members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
B) governors.
C) mayors of southern towns.
D) U.S. senators.
E) federal judges.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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MATCHING -Ku Klux Klan


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) D) and K)
N) A) and L)

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Black suffrage made little difference in the South as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.

A) True
B) False

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MATCHING -Enforcement Acts


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) D) and L)
N) D) and K)

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For whites, freedom, no matter how defined, was a given, a birthright to be defended. For African-Americans, it was an open-ended process, a transformation of every aspect of their lives and of the society and culture that had sustained slavery in the first place. Defend this statement.

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MATCHING -Howard University


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) A) and J)
N) C) and L)

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Sharecropping:


A) meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks.
B) was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor.
C) was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia.
D) became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity.
E) was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision) .

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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