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1. best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom
What is c. Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior.
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8. White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:
What is b. included many sharecroppers involved in the crop-lien system.
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13. The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans’ aims was:
What is a. land reform.
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25. Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black:
What is a. members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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24. Black officeholders during Reconstruction:
What is c. helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.
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How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?
What is c. Black women adopted the domestic roles that white women had long had, but retained their duties in the fields and in the workplace.
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9. During Reconstruction, southern cities:
What is a. enjoyed new-found prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North.
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14. The Civil Rights Act of 1866:
What is c. defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
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9. “Waving the bloody shirt” referred to:
What is c. a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason.
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26. Most of those termed “scalawags” during Reconstruction had been:
What is d. Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South.
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4. How did the Civil War affect planter families?
What is a. For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.
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10. Which of the following is NOT true about Andrew Johnson?
What is b. Through hard work, he rose into the planter class and then became a successful politician.
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15. When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:
What is b. argued that it discriminated against whites.
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32. The Prostrate State depicts:
What is b. South Carolina under allegedly corrupt Negro rule during Reconstruction.
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6. Sharecropping:
What is e. was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).
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11. Andrew Johnson:
What is d. lacked Lincoln’s political skills and keen sense of public opinion.
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17. What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?
What is e. He, at least allegedly, violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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22. During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman’s right to vote:
What is c. found themselves divided over whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment.
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28. Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction?
What is b. widespread transformation of plantations into black-owned farms
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7. The crop-lien system:
What is e. kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
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12. The southern Black Codes:
What is a. allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
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8. Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?
What is a. Johnson’s lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, so several voted to acquit him.
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23. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:
What is d. demonstrates that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.
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20. All of the following are true of passage of the Fifteenth Amendment EXCEPT:
What is d. it opened the door to voting restrictions not based on race.