AM History 132 UNIT 1 (Chapters 15-18)

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How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?
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The nation's first African-American colleges were established.
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How did the civil war affect planter families?
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For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.
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In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?
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It established an amendment promising equal protection for all
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What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?
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He returned it to the original owners
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What did the ex-slaves see as key to improving their condition?
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Receiving free land
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What did the freedman request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedman to Andrew Johnson" in 1865
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The right to purchase homestead
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How did the Reconstruction amendments change the role of government
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It set the stage for the federal government to be the protector of individual freedoms
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How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?
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The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.
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How did Frederick Douglass see the post-Civil War South?
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Douglass wanted to ensure that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence became a reality for black men, too.
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According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom?
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They tried to limit economic opportunity.
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After the Civil War, many ex-slaves traveled throughout the South. What was the reality for these ex-slaves?
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Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold.
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What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?
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He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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What benefit did Republicans see in having Andrew Johnson run as Abraham Lincoln's vice president in 1864?
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Lincoln's party hoped to build a Republican base in the South.
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Through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract," what can be determined?
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The contract was a type of economic slavery.
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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.
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Colfax, Louisiana
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The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?
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Dred Scott v. Stanford
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The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?
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Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment.
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During Reconstruction, various feminists who supported a woman's right to vote:
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found themselves divided over whether to support the Fifteenth Amendment.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:
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demonstrated that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.
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When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?
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Both Congress and the president accused the other of unconstitutional acts.
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After the Civil War, some ex-slaves walked hundreds of miles in search of family members.
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True
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As part of the Bargain of 1877, incoming President Grant agreed to stop using troops to protect African-Americans.
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True
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Black ministers during the Reconstruction played a major role in politics, holding some 250 public offices.
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True
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By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop.
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False
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Economic growth in the South was stronger in rural areas than in urban centers like Atlanta.
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False
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In Mississippi in 1875 and South Carolina in 1876, armed Democrats used violence to prevent African-Americans from voting.
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True
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James Pike's The Prostrate State was in support of the black Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction.
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False
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Right after the Civil War, ex-slaves did not care about the right to vote.
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False
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Thaddeus Stevens's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South.
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True
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The 1868 presidential election saw Ulysses S. Grant defeating Horatio Seymour.
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False
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The 1873 depression strengthened the North's resolve to ensure the success of Reconstruction, since the depression really hurt the South's farmers, highlighting the need for reform in the region.
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True
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
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True
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The Fifteenth Amendment ensured the right to vote no matter a person's race or gender.
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False
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The Freedmen's Bureau resembled some government social policies that would be used during the New Deal of the 1930s.
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True
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The Ku Klux Klan was the military arm of the Democratic Party in the South.
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False
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When the Union was restored by 1870, the southern states had Democratic majorities.
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False
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While Republicans were in power in the South, they established the region's first state-supported public schools.
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True
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With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.
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True
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By the end of Reconstruction, the South had as much industry as the North.
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False
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Compared to rebels in the rest of world history's civil wars, the rebels of the defeated Confederacy were treated very harshly.
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False
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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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True
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Black suffrage made little difference in the South, as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.
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False
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Because of land redistribution, the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction.
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False
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The Senate, following the House's impeachment vote, removed Andrew Johnson from office.
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False
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White southern Democrats considered scalawags traitors to both their party and their race.
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True