A) aid former slaves and war refugees adjust to life after the Civil War.
B) insure the election of former slaves to public office.
C) re-enslave free blacks.
D) help former Southern soldiers rebuild their farms.
E) make Americans accept the Civil War's outcome.
G) C) and D)
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A) protect the rights of small farmers from Northern land speculators.
B) terrorize blacks into submissive behavior and intimidate black voters.
C) pressure the North to end the military occupation of the South.
D) frighten whites into electing former slaves to public office.
F) B) and C)
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A) A large part of the women's rights movement did not believe that a constitutional amendment was necessary in order to gain the vote.
B) Half of the movement advocated focusing on the rights of black women, while the other half emphasized that first priority should be on the rights of black men.
C) Some advocates of women's rights refused to support black suffrage without similar guarantees of woman suffrage.
D) The women's rights movement had always avoided the debate over slavery, and many now feared being drawn into the new debate over black rights.
E) The leaders of the women's rights movement were racists who believed that black suffrage was a mistake.
G) None of the above
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A) unwritten laws in the South that allowed blacks to only work in agriculture.
B) agreements in northern states to keep blacks from moving into certain neighborhoods.
C) federal laws that clearly presented the rights that former slaves had.
D) guidelines that southern judges followed in making decisions involving black.
E) laws passed by southern state legislatures to restrict the freedoms of blacks.
G) B) and D)
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A) He refused to dismiss his vice president after he joined the Ku Klux Klan.
B) He attempted to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
C) He accepted a bribe from the Credit Mobilier Corporation.
D) He pardoned several Confederate generals including Robert E. Lee.
E) He nominated several black men to his cabinet.
G) None of the above
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A) It failed to provide for black suffrage.
B) It was pocket-vetoed by President Lincoln.
C) It provided that each former Confederate state would be ruled by a military governor.
D) It was much stricter than Lincoln's 10 percent plan.
E) It provided for almost immediate readmission to the Union.
G) B) and C)
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A) They favored black suffrage and federal support for public schools.
B) They hoped to crush the planter aristocracy.
C) They wanted to a period of extended military occupation in the south.
D) They believed that through intermarriage a true biracial society could be established in the South.
E) They believed that the federal government should confiscate Confederate property.
G) A) and B)
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A) The majority became single-parent families as men left their wives and set out to seek their fortunes.
B) Many blacks legalized marriages that had been formed under slavery.
C) Black men often asserted themselves as heads of households.
D) Black women withdrew from the work force to care for homes and family.
E) Many blacks migrated from the countryside to towns and cities.
G) A) and E)
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A) Susan B. Anthony
B) Thaddeus Stevens
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Horatio Seymour
E) Lorenzo Thomas
G) B) and C)
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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.
G) C) and E)
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A) declared secession illegal.
B) abolished slavery.
C) guaranteed freedmen the right to vote.
D) declared former slaves to be citizens.
E) disqualified former Confederate officers from running for office.
G) A) and D)
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A) the heroism shown by soldiers on the frontier.
B) government 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.
G) All of the above
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A) American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association
B) American Women's Party and the National Woman's Party
C) Women's Voting Commission and the Vote for Women Committee
D) Suffrage Now Club and the Rights for Women Club
E) Women's Freedom Party and the Association for Woman's Suffrage
G) A) and D)
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A) black codes were constitutional.
B) segregation was constitutional.
C) states, not individuals, were prohibited from discriminating under the 14th Amendment.
D) Abraham Lincoln's proclamation ending slavery was unconstitutional.
E) citizenship rights of black Americans could not be denied because of the color of their skin.
G) B) and D)
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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.
G) A) and B)
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A) They created public school systems.
B) They instituted ambitious programs of public works.
C) They confiscated land and redistributed it more equitable.
D) They expanded state bureaucracies and increased salaries for state employees.
E) They increased state debts and taxes.
G) D) and E)
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A) Reconstruction was not popular anywhere in the country.
B) Sound money was the first priority for most voters.
C) Republicans needed the newly enfranchised southern freedmen to ensure national victories.
D) American voters were tired of corruption in government.
E) Americans were wary of military men in politics.
G) A) and E)
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A) President Johnson exiled, imprisoned, or executed many former Confederate leaders.
B) Intense and unparalleled political conflicts dominated the national scene.
C) Demobilized Confederate soldiers continued armed resistance to federal occupation forces.
D) Freedmen took revenge on their former owners and the rest of the southern white community.
E) Radical Republicans ordered the execution of all Confederate officials holding a cabinet rank or higher.
G) A) and E)
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A) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan barred from political participation any ex-Confederate with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.
B) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan excluded freedmen from participating in the new reconstruction governments.
C) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan required that southerners take oaths of allegiance to the United States.
D) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan was designed to bring the southern states back into the Union as quickly as possible.
E) Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan prohibited former Confederate military officers from serving in the U.S. military.
G) All of the above
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A) President Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
B) Moderate Republicans realized that Johnson was delaying readmission of the former Confederate states.
C) Many Republicans feared the president's proposal for an agency that would provide relief, rations, and medical care for impoverished southerners.
D) President Johnson sent a message to northern Democrats that they could work together to rebuild the South.
E) Moderate Republicans feared that the president was going to bolt the Republican party for the Democratic party.
G) A) and E)
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