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MATCHING -Horace Greeley


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

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The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate:


A) that little changed in the South after the Civil War.
B) the African-American commitment to education.
C) that slaves tried to move as far away as possible from their old masters.
D) that African-Americans had no interest in building their own churches.
E) that African-Americans were content to live in their old slave quarters.

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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.

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The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in _________in 1873, where armed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had surrendered.


A) York County, South Carolina
B) Marietta, Georgia
C) Lynchburg, Virginia
D) Colfax, Louisiana
E) Guilford County, North Carolina

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Black ministers during Reconstruction played a major role in politics, holding some 250 public offices.

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In 1875, when Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames asked President Grant for help because white rifle clubs had openly assaulted and murdered Republicans, Grant:


A) immediately sent troops to assist the governor.
B) arrested the white men responsible for the terror.
C) commended Ames for his swift actions.
D) accused Ames of falsifying reports in order to harm Democrats.
E) told Ames that the northern public was "tired out" with southern problems.

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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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White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:


A) almost all-more than 90 percent of them-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.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866:


A) was proposed by border-state Democrats.
B) provided African-Americans with the right to vote.
C) defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
D) allowed states to determine essential citizenship standards.
E) won the support of President Andrew Johnson.

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The 1868 presidential campaign did not appeal to racism but only to economic concerns.

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MATCHING -Whiskey Ring


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

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The Prostrate State depicts:


A) an ailing slave who is unable to live long enough to see emancipation.
B) South Carolina under allegedly corrupt Negro rule during Reconstruction.
C) an economically weak South unable to contribute to the national economy.
D) a terrorized black community during the reign of the Ku Klux Klan.
E) an apathetic Congress that has given up on Reconstruction after 1870.

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General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15:


A) gave freed slaves the right to find family members who had been sold.
B) set aside the Sea Islands and 40-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.
C) gave 40 acres and a mule to blacks who wished to move to the unsettled American Southwest.
D) gave his men instructions to burn their way through the southern interior to the Atlantic coast.
E) established the Freedmen's Bureau to help blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom.

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

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MATCHING -Black Codes


A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in South
B) scandal in the Grant Administration
C) origin of "40 acres and a mule"
D) Northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in South
G) black school in Washington, D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) Southern-born white Republican
J) targeted Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in South during 1870s
L) terrorist organization

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Andrew Johnson:


A) simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies.
B) agreed with Lincoln that some African-Americans should be allowed suffrage rights.
C) won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868, but narrowly lost the election.
D) lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion.
E) displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln.

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MATCHING -Blanche Bruce


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

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

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MATCHING -Lyman Trumbull


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

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In the "Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" (1865) , what are the freedmen requesting?


A) the right to purchase a homestead
B) an opportunity to attend a black college
C) to buy some mules
D) to have help reuniting their family that had been sold
E) the right to vote

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