Exam 16: The Era of Reconstruction

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The primary goals of Reconstruction were...

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A) passively awaited developments.
B) attempted to establish schools.
C) normally joined integrated churches.
D) terrorized their former masters.
E) refused to work for wages.

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A) education, so as to be qualified for the same types of jobs as white men
B) voting rights, so as to have the ability to elect anti-slavery leaders in the South
C) health, so as to have the energy necessary to combat day-to-day racial prejudice
D) land, so as to become economically self-reliant as farmers
E) civil equality, so as to open the possibility for better opportunities in the long term

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A) organizing freedmen's conventions in state capitals to call for public education and
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B) fleeing the South and heading to northern cities such as Chicago and New York
C) accepting that the South would remain in the hands of former Confederates
D) calling for a separate state for all African Americans because coexistence was unfathomable
E) resorting to vigilant violence in an attempt to combat the return of slavery by
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A) dissipated, as southerners began to get used to the new normal.
B) led to a withdrawal of federal financial support in the South.
C) increased and turned violent with the rise of white supremacy.
D) taken on a peaceful approach thanks to strict enforcement measures.
E) renewed the second phase of the Civil War.

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A) was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B) was a leading Radical Republican who wanted to replace southern planters with a new generation of small farmers
C) was a leader of the women's rights movement who asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified
D) was a Union general who was appointed to lead the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and helped freed slaves attain labor contracts
E) was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate despite negative reactions from southern whites
F) was a Union general during the Civil War who was from working-class origins and went on to serve as president
G) was a wealthy corporate lawyer who became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 and initially appeared likely to win
H) was a newspaper editor who went on to oppose Grant in the 1872 presidential election and alienated northern voters
I) was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
J) was nearly assassinated the same day as Abraham Lincoln, but his would-be assassin wound up drunk in a hotel bar

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A) paid off in gold.
B) paid off in copper.
C) paid off in greenbacks.
D) canceled.
E) handed out to Union veterans.

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A) all former Confederates were denied the right to vote.
B) their provisions allowed for black voting rights.
C) former Confederates were uniformly banned from holding any public office.
D) their provisions granted universal female suffrage.
E) state governments were dismantled and replaced by direct federal administration.

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A) was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B) was a leading Radical Republican who wanted to replace southern planters with a new generation of small farmers
C) was a leader of the women's rights movement who asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified
D) was a Union general who was appointed to lead the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and helped freed slaves attain labor contracts
E) was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate despite negative reactions from southern whites
F) was a Union general during the Civil War who was from working-class origins and went on to serve as president
G) was a wealthy corporate lawyer who became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 and initially appeared likely to win
H) was a newspaper editor who went on to oppose Grant in the 1872 presidential election and alienated northern voters
I) was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
J) was nearly assassinated the same day as Abraham Lincoln, but his would-be assassin wound up drunk in a hotel bar

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A) the construction of railroads, roads, and bridges.
B) lower taxes and laws prohibiting awarding money to corporations.
C) continued federal protection for black voting rights.
D) the immediate elimination of new constitutions they created.
E) government reform that eliminated corruption and sharecropping.

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A) owned slaves.
B) served in the Union army.
C) changed their minds about race relations.
D) joined the Democratic party.
E) opposed secession.

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The Reconstruction policies changed over...

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A) was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B) was a leading Radical Republican who wanted to replace southern planters with a new generation of small farmers
C) was a leader of the women's rights movement who asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified
D) was a Union general who was appointed to lead the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and helped freed slaves attain labor contracts
E) was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate despite negative reactions from southern whites
F) was a Union general during the Civil War who was from working-class origins and went on to serve as president
G) was a wealthy corporate lawyer who became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 and initially appeared likely to win
H) was a newspaper editor who went on to oppose Grant in the 1872 presidential election and alienated northern voters
I) was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
J) was nearly assassinated the same day as Abraham Lincoln, but his would-be assassin wound up drunk in a hotel bar

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A) success of Reconstruction policies in achieving a biracial democracy in the South.
B) willingness of ex-Confederates and Klansmen to murder blacks.
C) support Grant had enjoyed in the Election of 1872 among southern Republicans.
D) economic consequences of "soft-money" policies in the South.
E) strength of the Union Leagues in Louisiana to rally support for black office holders.

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