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The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed


A) citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
B) land for former slaves.
C) voting rights for former Confederates who had previously served in the U.S. Army.
D) freed slaves the right to vote.
E) education to former slaves.

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

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All of the following reveal the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation except


A) some slaves remained loyal to plantation masters and resisted the liberating Union armies.
B) some slaves insisted that whites address them as "Mr." or "Mrs."
C) some slaves beat former masters with the same whips formerly used on them.
D) some slaves claimed sections of plantation land as their own.
E) some slaves were suspicious about whether masters were really freeing them.

F) All of the above
G) D) and E)

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Which of these is not a true statement about women's rights activists during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras?


A) Female activists saw the struggle for black freedom and women's rights as one in the same.
B) During the war, many women's rights leaders worked for black emancipation first and foremost.
C) The Woman's Loyal League collected 400,000 signatures supporting a constitutional amendment ending slavery.
D) Women's rights activists campaigned in support of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.
E) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony sought to have the word "sex" added to the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

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The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was


A) Johnson's personal vulgarity and crude style of campaigning.
B) the president's former ownership of slaves.
C) Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress.
D) Johnson's "class-based" policies that favored poor whites over the white planter and manufacturing classes.
E) Johnson's underlying loyalty to the Democratic party.

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

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ex parte Milligan

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Black Codes

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The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in


A) providing "forty acres and a mule" to freed blacks.
B) educating former slaves.
C) the provision of food and clothing.
D) helping people to find employment at fair wages and decent working conditions in the South.
E) securing black civil rights, preventing lynchings, and ensuring voting rights.

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

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Edwin M. Stanton

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The main purpose of the Black Codes was to


A) guarantee freedom for the blacks.
B) ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
C) prevent interracial sex and marriage.
D) prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers.
E) create a system of justice for ex-slaves.

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

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Alexander Stephens

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The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as


A) a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
B) an agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
C) a valued partner in rebuilding the South.
D) more helpful in the North than the South.
E) None of these choices are correct.

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

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At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners


A) came to view secession and the Civil War as a tragic mistake.
B) were ready to plan a future uprising against the United States.
C) declared themselves citizens of their states but not of the United States.
D) enthusiastically adopted the federal government in Washington, D.C. as "our government."
E) still believed that their view of secession was correct and their cause was just.

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

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In the 1866 congressional elections


A) President Johnson conducted a highly successful "swing around the circle" campaign tour promoting his policies.
B) radicals replaced moderates as the dominant Republican faction in Congress.
C) voters endorsed the Republicancongressional approach to Reconstruction.
D) Republicans lost their majority control of Congress.
E) a substantial number of white southern Republicans were elected to Congress.

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

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The Exodusters' westward mass migration finally faltered when


A) homesteading on the Great Plains proved more difficult than expected.
B) a massive, extended drought covered the Great Plains in in the late 1870s.
C) steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi.
D) white Kansans passed strict segregation laws.
E) the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were finally ratified.

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

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -carpetbaggers

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Exodusters"

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During Reconstruction, African American women in the South assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except


A) participating in black church life.
B) monitoring state constitutional conventions.
C) participating in political rallies.
D) organizing mass meetings.
E) voting in state and local elections.

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

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Compare and contrast Lincoln's, Johnson's, and Congress's plans for Reconstruction. Cite what was included and what was omitted. Which program do you think was the best plan for the nation and the best plan for blacks in the South? Defend your choices.

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The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as


A) an open political organization seeking to revive the Confederacy.
B) the military arm of the southern Democratic party.
C) a civic reform and service organization.
D) a movement for openly protesting northern oppression.
E) a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.

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

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Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to


A) help them escape to the North during the Civil War.
B) provide them with relief payments until the Freedmen's Bureau was established.
C) educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates.
D) gain admittance to the Union Army.
E) None of these choices are correct.

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

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