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The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?


A) Gibbons v. Ogden.
B) Dred Scott v. Stanford.
C) Fletcher v. Peck.
D) Marbury v. Madison.
E) McCulloch v. Maryland.

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

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Why, specifically, did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?


A) The South remained poor.
B) Black southerners were apathetic to equal rights.
C) Prominent ex-Confederates and pre-Civil War elite came into power.
D) Blacks refused to work with white politicians in the South.
E) From the beginning, no northerners supported his plan.

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

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Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

A) True
B) False

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Black Codes


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in the South
B) scandal in the Grant administration
C) origin of "forty acres and a mule"
D) northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in the South
G) black school in Washington, D.c.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) southern-born white Republican
J) targeted the Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in the South during the 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) B) and G)
N) K) and L)

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Was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Or was it something in between? In your response, consider land policy, key legislation during Presidential and Radical Reconstruction, southern politics, racial and political violence, and northern "fatigue" with Reconstruction. Be sure to make clear what you mean by success and failure.

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Sharecropping:


A) meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks.
B) was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor.
C) was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia.
D) became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity.
E) was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision) .

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

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While Republicans were in power in the South, they established the region's first state-supported public schools.

A) True
B) False

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Special Field Order 15


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in the South
B) scandal in the Grant administration
C) origin of "forty acres and a mule"
D) northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in the South
G) black school in Washington, D.c.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) southern-born white Republican
J) targeted the Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in the South during the 1870s
L) terrorist organization

M) A) and I)
N) C) and J)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -sharecropping

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White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:


A) by and large owned their own land.
B) included many sharecroppers involved in the crop-lien system.
C) refused to grow cotton because it had been a "slave crop."
D) were all enormously prosperous following the end of the Civil War.
E) saw their debts decrease as crop prices went up from 1870 to 1900.

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

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Edwin Stanton


A) second black U.S. senator
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
C) Presidential Reconstruction
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate
E) Freedmen's Bureau
F) Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G) Whiskey Ring
H) ended Reconstruction
I) feminist
J) Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K) first black U.S. senator
L) secretary of war

M) J) and L)
N) D) and F)

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What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?


A) A slaveholder had become president.
B) A man from a state that had seceded was now president.
C) An illiterate man was president.
D) A Ku Klux Klan leader ascended to the presidency.
E) Abraham Lincoln now regretted choosing Andrew Johnson as his vice president.

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

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The crop-lien system:


A) applied only to African-American farmers.
B) became better as farm prices increased in the 1870s.
C) enabled yeoman farmers to continue to function under the same system as before the Civil War.
D) annoyed bankers and merchants who resented how it made them dependent on farmers.
E) kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

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Through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract," what can be determined?


A) The ex-slave was given an agreement that mutually benefited both parties.
B) Ex-slaves were not going to be allowed to go to church.
C) The ex-slaves were lazy and unwilling to do farm work.
D) The contract was a type of economic slavery.
E) This farming system gave African-Americans a good standard of living.

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

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