Question 1

Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South,but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

By the time of his death,Lincoln's sympathies had shifted from essential allegiance to the moderate wing of his party to casting his lot with the Radical Republicans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

During Reconstruction,the term "scalawags" referred to

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A)   Southern white Republicans.
B)   free black Southerners.
C)   Southerners who moved north.
D)   white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy.
E)   Northerners who moved south.F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 5

Why would the legacy of Reconstruction matter throughout the twentieth century?

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Question 6

During Reconstruction,per capita income for Southerners

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A)   rose for blacks.
B)   rose for whites.
C)   declined for whites.
D)   rose for blacks and whites.
E)   rose for blacks and declined for whites.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of

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A)   the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.
B)   the growing political strength of Democrats.
C)   the Panic of 1873.
D)   perceptions of black-and-carpetbag misgovernment in the South.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 8

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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A)   involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
B)   saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president.
C)   brought a Radical Republican to the presidency.
D)   was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency.
E)   had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 9

The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its history.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century,

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A)   textile manufacturing increased ninefold.
B)   southerners became more dependent on agriculture than ever.
C)   per capita income fell sharply.
D)   most industrial growth came from coal mining.
E)   the average income reached 80 percent of that in the North.F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

Despite defeat in the Civil War,white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln affect Reconstruction?

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Question 13

Compare the conditions of black Americans living in the South in the 1850s with the those of the 1870s.

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Question 14

The Freedmen's Bureau

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A)   distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.
B)   pushed for voting rights for former male slaves.
C)   gave forty acres of land and a mule to millions of Southern blacks.
D)   was created to operate for only five years.
E)   created millions of federal public works jobs for former slaves.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 15

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office?

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Question 16

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

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A)   Conservatives sought many conditions to readmit the former Confederate states.
B)   Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.
C)   President Lincoln suggested that no conditions be put on the former Confederate states.
D)   they were hampered by the fact that no thought had been given to the task until the end of the war.
E)   Moderates believed the South should be readmitted without any concessions on black rights.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 17

Booker T.Washington outlined his basic philosophy in an 1895 speech that has come to be called the ________ Compromise.

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Question 18

As president,Andrew Johnson

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A)   quickly sided with the Radical Republicans.
B)   proposed delaying the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
C)   long delayed presenting his own plans for Reconstruction.
D)   offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
E)   argued the South should be readmitted to the Union without conditions.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 19

Enemies of President Grant and "Grantism" were called ________ Republicans.

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Question 20

Schuyler Colfax,Grant's vice president,

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A)   was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.
B)   was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner.
C)   opposed almost every one of Grant's policies.
D)   was fired by Grant for incompetence.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office?

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Why would the legacy of Reconstruction matter throughout the twentieth century?

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Despite defeat in the Civil War,white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.

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Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of

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As president,Andrew Johnson

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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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Compare the conditions of black Americans living in the South in the 1850s with the those of the 1870s.

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Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South,but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.

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The Freedmen's Bureau

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Schuyler Colfax,Grant's vice president,

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Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.

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