A) It remade the South economically.
B) Equal rights for African-Americans continued to increase after 1877.
C) It was one of the most complex time periods in American history.
D) It was a total failure and left no blueprint for the future.
E) The United States had become a declining world power in regard to trade.
G) A) and C)
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B) False
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A) passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner.
B) specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freedpeople were entitled.
C) represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race.
D) marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
E) placed into the U.S. Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision.
G) A) and C)
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A) remained poor and without property.
B) had the opportunity to purchase land.
C) managed to climb the social scale.
D) felt satisfied with their work.
E) believed the government was fulfilling its promises.
G) A) and C)
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B) False
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A) owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War.
B) non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War.
C) enslaved African-Americans before emancipation.
D) Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South.
E) Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil War.
G) A) and C)
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A) Rutherford Hayes did poorly in the western states.
B) The Republican Party did a good job protecting the voting rights of African-Americans in Mississippi.
C) A majority of northerners wanted to enforce Reconstruction policies more stringently.
D) The Republican Party had increased its support in the South.
E) If Tilden had won Louisiana, Florida, or South Carolina, he would have been president.
G) A) and C)
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A) banned governments from denying the right to vote on the basis of race.
B) guaranteed the right to vote for African-American men and women.
C) declared that citizens must own at least 160 acres of land in order to vote.
D) abolished slavery.
E) applied only to the former Confederate states.
G) A) and C)
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B) False
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A) simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies.
B) agreed with Lincoln that some African-Americans should be allowed suffrage rights.
C) won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868 but narrowly lost the election.
D) lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion.
E) displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln.
G) A) and D)
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A) most white yeoman farmers were able to become plantation owners.
B) the South industrialized and most African-Americans got jobs in factories.
C) the task system became the dominant labor system in the cotton-producing regions.
D) the vast majority of rural African-Americans remained poor and without property.
E) plantation owners no longer wielded economic and political power.
G) B) and E)
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A) The ex-slave was given an agreement that mutually benefited both parties.
B) Ex-slaves were not going to be allowed to go to church.
C) The ex-slaves were lazy and unwilling to do farmwork.
D) The contract was a type of economic slavery.
E) This farming system gave African-Americans a good standard of living.
G) All of the above
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A) It started to play a central role as blacks abandoned white-controlled religious institutions.
B) It no longer played a central role because blacks walked away from religion in large numbers.
C) It became cut off from the African-American community because it was deemed too radical.
D) It stopped playing a fundamental part in blacks' lives as they started to create more brotherhoods.
E) Its rise coincided with a decreased interest in education on the part of African-Americans.
G) A) and C)
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A) a powerful symbol of Ku Klux Klan violence against African-Americans.
B) a Democratic campaign prop that reminded voters that Republicans had been responsible for the Civil War.
C) a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason.
D) a sign of surrender that southern whites used to signify their loss of power.
E) Andrew Johnson's use of Abraham Lincoln's death for political purposes.
G) A) and E)
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A) The KKK was primarily concerned with stopping Asian immigration to the South.
B) Founded in 1866 in Tennessee, the KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked black and white Republicans during Reconstruction.
C) Most southern planters, merchants, and Democratic politicians who considered themselves "respectable citizens" publicly condemned the Klan.
D) President Grant's dispatching of federal marshals and troops in 1871 failed to have any effect on Klan violence.
E) The KKK functioned as the military arm of the Republican Party in the South.
G) A) and D)
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A) voting rights
B) education
C) equality between men and women
D) medicine
E) homesteads
G) B) and C)
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