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In the postwar South:
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The emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence.
The economy was utterly devastated
Industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish.
Poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery.
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The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in
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Education.
helping people to find employment.
Its distribution of land.
The provision of food and clothing.
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In the postwar South:
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The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in
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The White South viewed the Freedman’s Bureau as:
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The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated:
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In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised:
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Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War:
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That the Southern states were “conquered provinces” and therefore at the mercy of Congress for readmission to the Union was the view of:
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The Black Codes provided for all of the following except:
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For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ restoration to the Union was that
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The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed:
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In the 1866 Congressional elections,
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Congress’s impeachment of President Johnson and attempt to remove him from office were directly precipitated by his:
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Which of the following groups or persons had the most strict reconstruction plan toward the South?
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The fate of the Confederate leaders after 1865 was that
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For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except:
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In 1867 Secretary of State Seward accomplished an enduring success in foreign relations for the Johnson administration when he:
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Reconstruction might have been more successful if:
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In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
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In the aftermath of the Civil War,
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In the nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by “Waving the bloody shirt” were reminding voters:
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The Credit Mobilier scandal involved:
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President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
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Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated:
A. Roscoe Conkling 1. “Half-Breeds”
B. James G. Blaine 2. Stalwarts
C. Horace Greely 3. Regular Republicans
D. Ulysses Grant 4. Liberal Republicans
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As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
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The presidential elections of the 1870’s and 1880’s
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During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was:
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The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on:
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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
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The sequence of presidential terms of the “forgettable presidents” of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland’s two nonconsecutive terms) was:
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In the 1896 case of Plessey vs. Ferguson, The Supreme Court ruled that
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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
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Labor unrest during the 1870’s and 1880’s resulted in
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In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was:
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The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to
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Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other three?
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Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader
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Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892?
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(Extra Credit) Who was the Republican candidate for president in 1884?
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(Extra Credit) Winfield Hancock, a hero of the battle of Gettysburg, was the Democratic candidate for president in this year:
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(Extra Credit) Samuel Tilden was the Democratic candidate for president in 1876, and he nearly won that very close election. What was he famous for?