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Why was the 1876 presidential election one of the most unusual in U.S. history?


A) Congress voided the election and ordered a new one because of voting irregularities.
B) The election destroyed the Whig Party and paved the way for the Republican Party.
C) The victor was decided by a method other than the Electoral College or the House of Representatives.
D) General Ulysses S. Grant was elected and became one of the best presidents in history.
E) Rutherford Hayes won in large part because his supporters bribed black voters to vote for him.

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

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Which of the following Reconstruction laws is correctly paired with one of its provisions?


A) The Civil Rights Act of 1866: required military commanders to initiate voter enrollment.
B) The Reconstruction Act of 1867: invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson.
C) The Supplementary Freedman's Bureau Act prohibited the president from removing federal officials without consent of the Senate.
D) Army Appropriations Act: declared that the U.S. Army would be a fully integrated force.
E) Amnesty Act: proclaimed that only Confederate soldiers at or below the rank of private would be entitled to military pensions.

F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

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What was the impact of emancipation on the freedman? Discuss family, jobs, education, politics, and religious and social institutions. Did emancipation affect all freedmen in the same way? How did black females fare as free citizens?

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What was the key difference between the Lincoln and Johnson plans for reconstruction?


A) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan barred from political participation any ex-Confederate with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.
B) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan excluded freedmen from participating in the new reconstruction governments.
C) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan required that southerners take oaths of allegiance to the United States.
D) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan was designed to bring the southern states back into the Union as quickly as possible.
E) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan prohibited former Confederate military officers from serving in the U.S. military.

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

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What were the circumstances surrounding the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson? Why was he impeached? Why was he acquitted? What precedents were established in the process?

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. William H. Seward, Seward's Icebox

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Radical Republicans, Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Andrew Johnson

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Under the sharecropping system, poor farmers would


A) rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop produced on the land.
B) work as wage laborers on the farms of large landowners.
C) do handiwork on large farms in exchange food.
D) receive a share of the crop from a large farm in an early version of a welfare system.
E) pool their land and shared in whatever crops they produced.

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

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According to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which of the following conditions was the only one that did not have to be met before former Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union?


A) Southern states had to draft new constitutions with the approval by Congress that granted black suffrage.
B) Southern states had to the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) The Fourteenth Amendment had to be incorporated into the federal Constitution.
D) Southern black voters and whites who were not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment had to be allowed to elect delegates to state constitutional conventions.
E) Southern states had to devise plans to finance veterans' benefits for former Confederate soldiers.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Which one of the following was a result of the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson?


A) A precedent was established against the impeachment of presidents solely on political grounds.
B) Johnson emerged triumphant in his battle with the Radicals in Congress.
C) The president was convicted, dismissed from office, and replaced by Ulysses S. Grant.
D) Republicans and Democrats in Congress at last found a cause around which they all could rally.
E) None of these choices

F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

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Which statement accurately describes southern black education during Reconstruction?


A) It was a national priority.
B) It advanced but remained quite limited.
C) It made rapid strides toward integration.
D) It focused exclusively on the elementary level.
E) It declined rapidly.

F) None of the above
G) All of the above

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What factors contributed to the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk Universities, Hampton Institute

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Which of the following descriptions provides an accurate assessment of the success of Reconstruction?


A) It succeeded in giving blacks equal rights.
B) Although making initial progress, it failed to provide lasting improvements for blacks.
C) It established southern state governments which were dominated by northerners until the 20th century.
D) It ended the practice of segregation in both the North and the South.
E) It led to the adoption of legislation that guaranteed the civil rights of all Americans.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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Explain how and why the debate over reconstruction was, in part, a debate between congress and the president over which branch had the authority to shape and direct reconstruction.

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Crop-lien economy, tenant farming

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution


A) declared secession illegal.
B) abolished slavery.
C) guaranteed freedmen the right to vote.
D) declared former slaves to be citizens.
E) disqualified former Confederate officers from running for office.

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

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