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- A group of ________ opposed President Grant's reelection and broke with the rest of the party to nominate Horace Greeley
- White Southerners who supported the Republican Party during Reconstruction were known in the South as _________
- Congressional Radicals used all of the following methods to prevent the president from interfering with their plans for Reconstruction
- William H. Seward bought _____ from Russia for $7.2 million, a deal that became known as "Seward's Folly"
- True or false: many freed slaves searched for their lost relatives during Reconstruction
- White Northerners who moved to the South and served as Republican leaders during Reconstruction were called "_________" by Southerners who resented their involvement
- The Radical Republicans' proposal for Reconstruction was known as the ______-_______ Bill
- With the 1870 passage of the ______ amendment, which gave all male citizens the right to vote, many reformers felt that African Americans should be able to take care of themselves
- In order to resolve disputed electoral returns, Congress created a special electoral commission composed of:
- Many scalawags, or Southern white Republicans, also could be classified as
- Between 1857 and 1879, the per capita income of African Americans rose by what percentage?
- Many Northerners were concerned to see Souther states electing _________ as their representatives to Congress
- In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, souther states enacted laws known as the _______ _______ to maintain white southerners' power over former slaves
- In order to disenfranchise black voters, many states developed a _______ tax
- What did not contribute to the expansion of the textile industry in the South?
- In March 1865, Congress established the ______ to distribute food and establish schools
- Which of the following best describes most former slaves' economic status at the end of the Civil War?
- The ______ Amendment guarantees citizenship to everyone born in the United States
- In the Disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrat _______ carried the South and won the popular vote by 300,000 votes
- In the 1890s, the level of white violence against blacks increased, most notably due to _____ mobs.