Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Compromise of 1877

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Crop-lien economy, tenant farming

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Question 3

What political and economic problems arose in the North during the era of Reconstruction?

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Question 4

What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?

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A)  They were all universities that were established in response to the forced integration of Southern colleges implemented by the Reconstruction Act of 1867. 
B)  They were all predominantly black institutions that were established in the years immediately following the Civil War. 
C)  Established during the years of the Confederacy, they all closed their doors temporarily in the 1870s rather than admit blacks. 
D)  They were the locations of the first four chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. 
E)  They were all founded and named in honor of famous African American generals of the Civil War era.

Question 5

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Civil Rights Act of 1875, Civil Rights Cases

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Question 6

By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's reconstruction policies,

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A)  All southern states had ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and repudiated their Confederate debts. 
B)  Most southern states had passed special industrial codes to help the freedmen become economically independent. 
C)  Former Confederate officials and generals had been elected to serve in Congress. 
D)  Southern states were moving toward rebellion and secession once again. 
E)  The southern states had been divided into a series of military districts.

Question 7

Which statement concerning Republican rule in the former Confederate states is true?

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A)  It was permanently established through the new state constitutions approved by Congress. 
B)  In most states lasted until the Democrats were able to recapture the White House in 1884. 
C)  It lasted a maximum of about eight years, but in most states much less. 
D)  It revolutionized southern politics and destroyed the Democratic party. 
E)  It established high standards of ethical behavior.

Question 8

In what ways did the process of emancipation differ in Russia and United States in the 1860s? To what extent were the legacies of emancipation in both countries similar? Why?

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Question 9

Explain how and why the debate over reconstruction was, in part, a debate between congress and the president over which branch had the authority to shape and direct reconstruction.

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Question 10

In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?

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A)  to remove the remaining federal troops from the South. 
B)  to allow Democrats to take over the last of the Republican Reconstruction governments. 
C)  that the federal government help pay off the Confederate war debt. 
D)  to award half of all federal patronage to southern Democrats. 
E)  to provide federal aid for building factories and urban recreation areas throughout the South.

Question 11

The term "Grantism" referred to

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A)  the heroism shown by soldiers on the frontier. 
B)  fraud and political corruption. 
C)  the ideal appointees to the federal government. 
D)  the failure of the Democratic party to rule effectively in the 1870s. 
E)  alcohol abuse in the White House.

Question 12

The "Black codes" passed by several states were designed to

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A)  allow blacks to only work in agriculture. 
B)  prevent blacks from moving into certain neighborhoods. 
C)  safeguard the newfound rights granted to freedmen by the federal government. 
D)  provide assistance and land to newly freed slaves. 
E)  restrict the freedoms of blacks in multiple ways.

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Grantism

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Question 14

Evaluate how southerners attempted to combat Reconstruction. What means did they use? Who were their key leaders? How successful were they in resisting the Reconstruction efforts of the federal government?

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Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Fourteenth Amendment

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Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Question 17

Which statement is not true about Andrew Johnson?

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A)  He wanted to exclude the planters from political leadership in the South but then undermined his intention by granting so many pardons to this group. 
B)  He cared deeply about obtaining just treatment for the freedmen. 
C)  He was a lifelong Democrat with no interest in building the strength of the Republican party. 
D)  He vetoed all of the congressional reconstruction acts, only to have Congress override his vetoes. 
E)  During the war he had reversed his position on slavery.

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Minor v. Happersett

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Question 19

Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's "10 percent plan"?

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A)  State governments could be formed when at least 10 percent of those who had voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union and accepted emancipation. 
B)  Confederate officials needed presidential pardons before they could participate in the new governments. 
C)  Confederate army and naval officers needed presidential pardons before they could participate in the new governments. 
D)  Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who had formerly worked there as slaves. 
E)  Freedmen were excluded from participation because they had not been voters in 1860.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Sharecropping system

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Exam 16: Reconstruction and Resistance

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Compromise of 1877

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Crop-lien economy, tenant farming

What political and economic problems arose in the North during the era of Reconstruction?

What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Civil Rights Act of 1875, Civil Rights Cases

By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's reconstruction policies,

Which statement concerning Republican rule in the former Confederate states is true?

In what ways did the process of emancipation differ in Russia and United States in the 1860s? To what extent were the legacies of emancipation in both countries similar? Why?

Explain how and why the debate over reconstruction was, in part, a debate between congress and the president over which branch had the authority to shape and direct reconstruction.

In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?

The term "Grantism" referred to

The "Black codes" passed by several states were designed to

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Grantism

Evaluate how southerners attempted to combat Reconstruction. What means did they use? Who were their key leaders? How successful were they in resisting the Reconstruction efforts of the federal government?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Fourteenth Amendment

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Which statement is not true about Andrew Johnson?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Minor v. Happersett

Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's "10 percent plan"?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sharecropping system