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- During the era of Reconstruction, women fought unsuccessfully forvoting rights.the right to travel freely in the South.the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.business regulation.
- unflattering name for a white southern RepublicanscalawagcarpetbaggersharecropperKaren
- Which was a major success of Reconstruction in the South?an end to racist government policiesthe transformation into an industrialized, urban regionthe creation of a public school systeman end to tensions between the South and the North
- Which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the number of Africans transported to the New World after 1800?
- What was the verdict in President Johnson's impeachment trial?He was found guilty.He was removed from office.He escaped conviction by one vote.He was forced to confess his guilt.
- A major failure of Reconstruction was thatthe South's cotton production never recovered.war debts remained unpaid.racist attitudes continued in the North and South.no African Americans were voted into Congress.
- What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?It kept formerly enslaved persons in poverty.It brought investment capital to the South.It encouraged Northerners to migrate south.It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits.
- The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was toprevent African Americans from exercising their rights.gain control of state legislatures.restore the Confederacy.improve conditions for poor white
- The underlying reason for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson wasthe Credit Mobilier scandala power struggle with Congress over Reconstructionhis refusal to appoint new justices to the Supreme Courthis policies toward Native American Indians
- In the ten years following the Civil War, a large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becomingconductors on the Underground Railroadworkers in Northern factoriessharecroppers on Southern farmsgold miners in California
- Among the failures of Reconstruction was the inability tosave the Democratic Party.withdraw federal troops from the South.move black Southerners out of poverty.stimulate economic growth in the South.
- The Freedmen's Bureau succeeded in:redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.electing African Americans to southern state governments.
- legislation stating that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and no state could restrictFourteenth AmendmentFifteenth AmendmentThirteenth Amendment
- The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by theCompromise of 1850Emancipation Proclamation of 1863creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865
- Which best reflects President Lincoln's hopes for Reconstruction?to punish the South severely for seceding from the Unionto replace all white officials in the South with African Americansto strengthen the North's domination of the Southto bind the nation together and create a lasting peace
- In the South, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s and 1880s led directly to theracial integration of public schoolsdecline of the Democratic partyorganization of the Ku Klux Klansegregation of public facilities
- official forgiveness of a crimeimpeachpardonscalawagcarpetbagger
- term for a northern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil Warscalawagcarpetbaggersharecropper
- act of formally charging an official with wrongdoing in officescalawagcarpetbaggerimpeachpardon
- In his presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnsonmatched Lincoln's plan exactly.was more generous than Lincoln.allowed some slavery to continue.put the South under strict military control.