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01/06/2011
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The states that had seceded were simply out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and the nations goal following the war to return them to their proper practical relation. This statement was made by.
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Abraham Lincoln.
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The Union League:
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was a Republican group that, among other things, helped prepare former slaves to exercise their new right to vote.
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Henry Wirz was executed after the Civil War because he had:
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commanded the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, where many Union prisoners had died.
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Black codes were designed by:
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southern legislatures to set blacks aside as a caste separate from whites and subject to special restraints.
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In the election of 1876:
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the Republican candidate.
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During Radical Reconstruction:
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Mississippi elected two black U.S. Senators.
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The Military Reconstruction Act:
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is correctly represented all the above statements. (required southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, said that no legal state government or adequate protection for life and property now exists in the rebel States, and required souther southern states to accept black suffrage)
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The Resumption Act, passed by Congress in 1875:
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allowed for the redemption of greenbacks in gold.
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The Mulligan letters:
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linked Republican James G. Blaine to shady railroad deals.
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The Civil Right Act of 1866:
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was passed over Johnson's veto.
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Of the eleven articles of impeachment, eight focused on the charge:
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that Johnson had unlawfully removed Edwin Stanton from office.
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Who dreaded the change upon hearing of President Lincoln's death and the rise of Andrew Johnson as president?
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Ulysses S. grant
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Soft-money advocates argued that government war bonds should be:
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paid off in greenbacks.
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Andrew Johnson was from the state of:
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Tennessee.
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The plan by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk to corner the gold market:
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ended on Black Friday when President Grant ordered the selling of a large quantity of gold.
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Andrew Johnson:
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favored the interests of small farmers over those of large planters.
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The Ku Klux Klan:
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terrorized black and white Republicans.
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Which of the following stood for sweeping change in the South and full equality for the freedmen?
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the Radical Republicans.
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The Wade-Davis Bill:
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was more stringent than Lincoln's plan for readmitting the southern states.
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Ulysses S. Grant:
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brought little political experience and judgment to the presidency.
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The fourteenth amendment:
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forbade states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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Why didn't President Grant seek a third term in 1876?
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By 1875, he acknowledged the growing opposition to his renomination.
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Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction:
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required the southern states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Many of the so-called carpetbaggers were:
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Union veterans.
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The Tenure of Office Act:
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aimed to keep Radical sympathizer Edwin Stanton in the cabinet.
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The Electoral Commission, set up by Congress in January 1877:
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consisted of fifteen members, five each from the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.
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After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would receive:
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forty acres and a mule.
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Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction:
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10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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The House of Representatives found grounds to begin impeachment proceedings against President Johnson when he:
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violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to the reconstruction efforts had:
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turned violent.
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Slavery was abolished throughout the Union:
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by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated:
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by John Wilkes Booth.
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The Compromise of 1877:
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allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.
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Which of the following best describes the role of blacks in southern politics during Reconstruction?
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About 600 blacks served in the state legislatures.
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When, in late 1865, the former Confederate States sent a number of ex-Confederates to Congress, the Unionists in Congress:
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denied them their seats.
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When discussing what to do with the former Confederate States, President Johnson:
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preferred the term restoration rather than reconstruction.
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At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves were given:
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medical and legal assistance from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands.
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In 1866:
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Republicans won a majority of seats in each house of Congress, thus assuring that the congressional plan of Reconstruction would pass over Johnson's vetoes.
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During the Civil War, Congress passed:
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the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for five years.
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Radical Republicans:
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gained strength in 1866.
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