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U.S. History Exam 2

U.S. History Exam 2

Question 1 of 85

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What were the dominant themes right after the Revolutionary War?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Federal vs. states' rights

  • Sectionalism - northern vs. southern

  • Westward expansion

  • Relocating the Natives

Explanation

Question 2 of 85

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Which made a stronger federal government?

Select one of the following:

  • The Articles of Confederation

  • The Constitution

Explanation

Question 3 of 85

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Which came first?

Select one of the following:

  • The Articles of Confederation

  • The Constitution

Explanation

Question 4 of 85

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The Articles of Confederation was effective

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 85

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The Constitution ( replaced, revised ) The Articles of Confederation

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Question 6 of 85

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The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established

Select one of the following:

  • A Bicameral body (two houses of congress)

  • The 3 branches of government

  • Election via the electoral college

Explanation

Question 7 of 85

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The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established that the number of representatives each state got in the House was , and the number of senators each state got in the Senate was .

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    proportional to the state's population
    two

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Question 8 of 85

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The three-fifths compromise

Select one of the following:

  • Natives counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population

  • Slaves counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population

  • Natives had a right to keep three-fifths of their land

Explanation

Question 9 of 85

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The Constitution was mostly written by

Select one of the following:

  • James Madison

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • John Adams

  • Adolf Hitler

  • Bugs Bunny

Explanation

Question 10 of 85

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The "necessary and proper clause" of the Constitution

Select one of the following:

  • Allowed the federal government some wiggle room to assume powers not specifically given to it

  • Made slavery legal only where it was necessary for the economy

  • Gave the president the ability to use executive orders when necessary

Explanation

Question 11 of 85

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Why didn't Anti-Federalists like the Constitution?

Select one or more of the following:

  • It didn't include a bill of rights

  • It gave a lot more power to the central government

  • It gave a lot more power to the state governments

  • They thought it would lead to more taxation without representation

Explanation

Question 12 of 85

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The Bill of Rights added which of these to the Constitution?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Freedom of speech and press

  • Freedom of religion

  • The right of 'Mericans to bear arms

  • The right to trial by jury

  • The right of land-owning male citizens to vote

  • The right to be an idiot

Explanation

Question 13 of 85

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The first two-party system (which came about after George Washington) was

Select one of the following:

  • Democratic Party and Republican Party

  • Democratic Party and Whig Party

  • Federalist Party and Anti-Federalist Party

  • Federalist Party and Republican Party

Explanation

Question 14 of 85

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constructionism said the federal government could do anything not prohibited by the Constitution, and constructionism said the federal government could only do what was necessary to carry out its specific responsibilities.

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    Broad
    strict

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Question 15 of 85

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Alexander Hamilton

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was a broad constructionist

  • Was a strict constructionist

  • Supported industrialization

  • Played a major role in establishing the national bank

  • Supported the agrarian dream

  • Was a Republican

  • Was a Federalist

Explanation

Question 16 of 85

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Thomas Jefferson

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was a broad constructionist

  • Was a strict constructionist

  • Supported industrialization

  • Supported the agrarian dream

  • Played a major role in establishing the national bank

  • Was a Federalist

  • Was a Republican

Explanation

Question 17 of 85

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Not long after the Revolutionary War, Britain started

Select one or more of the following:

  • Impressing captured American sailors into the British navy

  • Holding on to their forts west of the colonies

  • Taking American slaves back to Britain with them

  • Supporting Mexico against the U.S.

  • Encouraging Canadian raids into New York

Explanation

Question 18 of 85

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After the revolution, who negotiated a treaty with Britain to stop them from impressing American sailors, and convince them to abandon their forts west of the colonies?

Select one of the following:

  • John Adams

  • John Jay

  • John Hancock

  • John Paul Jones

  • Prince John the phony king of England

Explanation

Question 19 of 85

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The second president was

Select one of the following:

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • James Madison

Explanation

Question 20 of 85

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The third president was

Select one of the following:

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • James Madison

  • Andrew Jackson

Explanation

Question 21 of 85

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Which president had good relations with France?

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • John Adams

Explanation

Question 22 of 85

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Which president had good relations with Britain?

Select one of the following:

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

Explanation

Question 23 of 85

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When relations with France were not good, the French delegates "X, Y, and Z" did what?

Select one of the following:

  • Refused to negotiate unless a $250,000 bribe was paid

  • Refused to sell the Louisiana Territory

  • Publicly mocked John Adams

Explanation

Question 24 of 85

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The Alien and Sedition acts did what?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Extended the term a foreigner had to live in the U.S. before they could get citizenship

  • Authorized deporting illegal immigrants

  • Authorized imprisonment or fines for conspiracy

  • Temporarily barred immigrants from Britain

  • Prevented immigrants from working high-skill jobs

Explanation

Question 25 of 85

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Who supported an embargo against trading with Britain not long before the war of 1812?

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • John Adams

  • James Madison

  • Andrew Jackson

Explanation

Question 26 of 85

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Who was the winning general of the Battle of New Orleans and later became president?

Select one of the following:

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Ulysses S. Grant

  • Batman

  • John Paul Jones

  • James Monroe

Explanation

Question 27 of 85

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Jefferson was generally a constructionist, but using federal funds for Lewis and Clark's exploration made him look more like a constructionist.

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    strict
    broad

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Question 28 of 85

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The Monroe Doctrine

Select one of the following:

  • Said America and Europe should not interfere in each other's hemispheres

  • Promised Native Americans land further west, and started relocating them

  • Sent a message to Mexico not to interfere with Texas gaining its independence

Explanation

Question 29 of 85

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One change that led to the industrial revolution: started to be used more instead of

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    cash
    credit/debt ledgers

Explanation

Question 30 of 85

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Immigrants were a source of cheap, unskilled, labor

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 85

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Changes leading to the industrial revolution included

Select one or more of the following:

  • A market economy

  • Nationalism

  • Immigrants

  • Technological innovation

  • Credit was more available

  • Limited liability laws

  • Urbanization

  • Slave labor

  • Increased trade with Canada and Mexico

  • Batmobiles were in higher demand

Explanation

Question 32 of 85

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The Declaration of Sentiments

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was modeled on the Declaration of Independence

  • Was modeled on the Bill of Rights

  • Was written by women demanding their rights

  • Was written by women showing how sentimental and emotional they were

  • Included a list of grievances

  • Included proposed solutions to problems

  • Was issued at the Seneca Falls Conference

  • Was issued at an 1848 temperance conference

Explanation

Question 33 of 85

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Who invented the steamboat?

Select one of the following:

  • Robert Fulton

  • Robert Hudson

  • Samuel de Champlain

Explanation

Question 34 of 85

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Who invented the telegraph?

Select one of the following:

  • Samual Morse

  • Alexander Graham Bell

  • Samual Smiles

  • Eli Whitney

  • A flamenco dancer

Explanation

Question 35 of 85

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The ( North, South ) had more railroads

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Question 36 of 85

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Reasons for increased economic stratification

Select one or more of the following:

  • Railroad and factory owners accumulated unprecedented wealth

  • Urbanization increased rapidly

  • Poor, especially immigrants, lived in slums

  • Plantation owners accumulated unprecedented wealth

  • The middle class decreased rapidly

Explanation

Question 37 of 85

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The second two-party system (which developed during westward expansion in the 1800s)

Select one of the following:

  • Democratic Party and Republican Party

  • Democratic Party and Whig Party

  • Federalist Party and Whig Party

  • Federalist Party and Republican Party

Explanation

Question 38 of 85

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The Democratic Party was led by

Select one of the following:

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Henry Clay

  • James Monroe

  • Millard Filmore

Explanation

Question 39 of 85

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Andrew Jackson

Select one or more of the following:

  • Came from a rich background

  • Did not come from money

  • Was popular among the poor

  • Was popular among Native Americans

  • Was popular among rich aristocrats

Explanation

Question 40 of 85

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The Whig Party was led by

Select one of the following:

  • Henry Clay

  • Andrew Jackson

  • James Buchanan

  • The crazy man in the pink wig

Explanation

Question 41 of 85

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The government was not actively involved in westward expansion

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 42 of 85

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Don't never use none of those nonsensical triple negatives

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 85

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The West was settled because of

Select one or more of the following:

  • Opportunity

  • Ambition

  • Immigration

Explanation

Question 44 of 85

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The West was won by

Select one or more of the following:

  • Annexation

  • War

  • Purchase

  • Reverse Polish Notation

Explanation

Question 45 of 85

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When Texas was annexed by the U.S...

Select one or more of the following:

  • It was peaceful

  • Most people there were Americans

  • Most people there were Mexicans

  • It immediately started war

Explanation

Question 46 of 85

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The Treaty of ended the war with Mexico and established the Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Later, the purchase added southern Arizona and completed the continental United States.

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    Guadalupe Hidalgo
    Gadsden

Explanation

Question 47 of 85

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Andrew Jackson supported moving the Native Americans further west

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 48 of 85

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The Trail of Tears

Select one or more of the following:

  • Started under Andrew Jackson

  • Started under Martin Van Buren

  • Escorted Natives from Georgia to west of Arkansas

  • Escorted Natives from Alabama to west of Arizona

  • Thousands of Native Americans died on it

Explanation

Question 49 of 85

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recognized the Cherokees' right to their land, but ordered the military to escort them on the Trail of Tears.

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    The Supreme Court
    Andrew Jackson

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Question 50 of 85

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Industrialization caused ( a decrease, an increase ) in the integration of buildings into the natural environment.

Explanation

Question 51 of 85

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During industrialization:
The South:
The Northeast:
The Midwest:

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    Agrarian
    Industrial
    Mixed

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Question 52 of 85

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In the 19th century, the role of women

Select one of the following:

  • Expanded

  • Decreased

Explanation

Question 53 of 85

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In the 19th century, the replaced the

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    cult of domesticity
    doctrine of coverture

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Question 54 of 85

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In the 19th century

Select one or more of the following:

  • Women were idealized and charged with keeping the family pure

  • Children were treated as children, not small adults

  • Children were treated as small adults

  • Many women worked in factories and were exposed to unsavory elements

Explanation

Question 55 of 85

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Some single women found jobs

Select one or more of the following:

  • as teachers

  • in textile factories, such as Lowell Mills

  • as cleaners

  • as sales clerks

Explanation

Question 56 of 85

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Many married middle-class women

Select one or more of the following:

  • Spread Christian reform

  • Felt a responsibility to keep America on a morally true course

  • Found jobs in factories

  • Became small land-owners

Explanation

Question 57 of 85

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The Second Great Awakening

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was led by Charles Finney

  • Was led by Jonathan Edwards

  • Appealed to individuals to be the best Christians they could be

  • Appealed to emotion

  • Appealed to preachers to be responsible for the salvation of their whole congregation

Explanation

Question 58 of 85

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In workingmen societies, workers started to identify with instead of with .

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    other workers
    the owners

Explanation

Question 59 of 85

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Workingmen societies tried to maintain the status quo in the workplace.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 60 of 85

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The temperance movement

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was connected to the Second Great Awakening

  • Sought to abolish the production and consumption of alcohol

  • Was connected to the abolition movement

Explanation

Question 61 of 85

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19th century reform movements included

Select one or more of the following:

  • Temperance

  • Abolition

  • Women's rights

  • Health and sanitation

  • The Second Great Awakening

  • Workplace reform

  • Public education

  • Prison and mental health

  • Trade regulation

  • Environmental regulation

Explanation

Question 62 of 85

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The common school movement was started by

Select one of the following:

  • Horace Mann

  • Robert Frost

  • Batman

  • Noah Webster

Explanation

Question 63 of 85

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke

Select one or more of the following:

  • Were born in the South

  • Were born in the North

  • Were abolitionists

  • Saw parallels between slaves and women

Explanation

Question 64 of 85

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After the Seneca Falls Conference, took the spotlight away from for awhile.

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    abolition
    women's rights

Explanation

Question 65 of 85

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Men's abolition groups and women's abolition groups were usually united

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 66 of 85

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People from didn't really want slavery, but people from jumped the border and voted

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    Kansas
    Missouri

Explanation

Question 67 of 85

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What happened during the riots after the Kansas-Nebraska act?

Select one or more of the following:

  • John Brown and his sons started killing people

  • Kansas got the nickname "Bleeding Kansas"

  • Senator Charles Sumner's nephew attacked him in congress

  • Admission of Kansas and Nebraska as states was delayed

Explanation

Question 68 of 85

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Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?

Select one of the following:

  • He had lived in a free state

  • He said his master had given him his freedom right before he died

  • He had been free and then wrongfully recaptured

Explanation

Question 69 of 85

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On the Dred Scott case, chief justice Taney said

Select one or more of the following:

  • Once a slave, always a slave

  • Slaves could, in some cases, gain their freedom

  • Only free blacks could ever be citizens

  • Blacks, slave or free, could never be citizens

  • The government could bar slavery in some states

  • The government could not bar slavery anywhere

Explanation

Question 70 of 85

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Abraham Lincoln was the first candidate for the

Select one of the following:

  • Republican Party

  • Whig Party

  • Northern Democratic Party

  • New Constitution Party

Explanation

Question 71 of 85

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Stephen Douglas

Select one or more of the following:

  • Northern Democratic Party

  • Southern Democratic Party

  • Ran against Lincoln in 1860

  • Wanted to protect slavery

  • Wanted popular sovereignty

Explanation

Question 72 of 85

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Soon after Lincoln was elected, the entire deep South seceded from the union

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 73 of 85

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Who was named president of the confederate states?

Select one of the following:

  • Stephen Douglas

  • Jefferson Davis

  • John Breckenridge

  • Joseph Stalin

Explanation

Question 74 of 85

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Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, the border states, were ( slave, free ) states and were in the ( union, confederacy ).

Explanation

Question 75 of 85

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The battle at ( Fort Sumter, Charleston, Gettysburg ) started the Civil War.

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Question 76 of 85

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The Emancipation Proclamation

Select one or more of the following:

  • Freed the slaves in the southern states

  • Freed the slaves in the border states

  • Was issued by Abraham Lincoln

  • Was issued by Ulysses S. Grant

Explanation

Question 77 of 85

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surrendered to , ending the Civil War.

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    Robert E. Lee
    Ulysses S. Grant

Explanation

Question 78 of 85

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The South surrendered at .
Lincoln was assassinated at .

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    Appomattox
    Ford's Theatre

Explanation

Question 79 of 85

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Andrew Johnson

Select one or more of the following:

  • Was Lincoln's VP

  • Was an effective leader

  • Punished the South harshly

  • Was a southern sympathizer

  • Pardoned Confederate officials, officers, and wealthy supporters

  • Re-empowered the slavocracy

Explanation

Question 80 of 85

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Amendments
Right to vote will not be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the U.S. -
All persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S. -

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    15
    13
    14

Explanation

Question 81 of 85

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The Radical Republicans

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rose up during reconstruction

  • Were led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

  • Were led by Andrew Johnson and Stephen Douglas

  • Kept freedmen oppressed by sharecropping

  • Supported true democracy and education for freedmen

  • Put the northern military in the South to make them adhere to the rules

  • Wouldn't let states re-enter the Union unless they followed the rules

Explanation

Question 82 of 85

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The “40 acres and a mule” idea passed and was successful

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 83 of 85

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Sharecropping

Select one or more of the following:

  • Plantation owners and freedmen each got 50% of crops

  • Prices were fixed so freedmen never made enough to buy their own land

  • Groups of freedmen owned former plantations that they shared among several of them

  • Was effective

Explanation

Question 84 of 85

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Almost all blacks wanted white support from Freedmen's Bureaus

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 85 of 85

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Jim Crow Laws

Select one or more of the following:

  • Were designed to disenfranchise blacks

  • In some states, if you couldn’t read, or didn’t own property, you couldn’t vote

  • Some states had a poll tax - most blacks couldn’t afford it

  • Some states had grandfather clause - if your grandfather couldn’t vote, you couldn’t vote

  • In some states, KKK membership was required to vote

  • Because I'm Batman

Explanation

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