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Who received the most votes in the 1876 presidential election?
? TILDEN BY OVER 250,000
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What kind of mills sprang up all over the South AFTER the Civil War?
[COTTON] TEXTILE MILLS
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What did the South get from the Compromise of 1877?
WITHDRAWL OF FEDERAL TROOPS FROM THE SOUTH, I.E., THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION
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What state had most of the South’s steel production?
ALABAMA
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What was Henry Grady’s occupation/position?
EDITOR OF THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
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What party controlled the South after Reconstruction ended?
DEMCRATS
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What did Jim Crow laws require?
RACIAL SEGREGATION
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What did “Redeemers” save the South from?
REPUBLICAN RULE
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What is a poll tax?
TAX TO VOTE
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How many states had contested electoral votes in the 1876 election?
FOUR
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. What was the vote of the special commission set up to decide the presidential election of 1876?
8-7 FOR HAYES; ALL THE REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR HIM AND ALL THE DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST HIM
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Who did Grady want to use as a model to create a “New South”?
THE INDUSTRIAL YANKEE NORTH
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According to the Compromise of 1877, what did the North get?
PRESIDENCY; DEMOCRATIC PROMISE TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN
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What did indebted cotton sharecroppers plant when too much cotton drove down prices?
MORE COTTON
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How could poor, illiterate whites vote if they couldn’t pass the literacy test or pay the poll tax?
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
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Why would Northern investors build factories in the South?
CHEAP LABOR
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What did supporters of the New South want to replace cotton plantations with?
SMALLER, DIVERSIFIED FARMS
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What did the Supreme Court say about segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
SEPARATE FACILITIES ARE OK IF THEY ARE EQUAL
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What did Southern Democrats reduce after they took power?
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND TAXES
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What did James Duke [of the eponymous university] control?
TOBACCO [ESPECIALLY THE NEW CIGARETTES]
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What was the purpose of the literacy test?
KEEP ILLITERATE [MAINLY FREEDMEN] FROM VOTING
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What are three reasons why the Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes?
HONEST REPUTATION; POLITICAL REFORMER; MODERATE VIEWS ON RECONSTRUCTION
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What is lynching?
MOB ‘JUSTICE’; MURDERING PEOPLE THE MAJORITY DON’T LIKE OR THINK ARE CRIMINALS
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Who said “The slave went free . . . then moved back again toward slavery”?
W.E.B. DUBOIS
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What are two reasons why the Democrats nominated Tilden?
FOUGHT POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN New York City; WAS A DEMOCRAT IN LARGE NORTHERN STATE—NEW YORK
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