Question 1

The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

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after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868

Question 2

In the postwar South

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the economy and social structure was utterly devastated

Question 3

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

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caused whole communities of Southern blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to migrate westward to territories and states such as Kansas for better job opportunities

Question 4

All of the following reveal the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation except

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some slaves claimed sections of plantation land as their own.

Question 5

In 1865, following the conclusion of the Civil War

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Southern blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity

Question 6

From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were

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black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas

Question 7

The Exodusters' westward mass migration finally faltered when

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steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi

Question 8

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except

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relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters

Question 9

The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in

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educating former slaves

Question 10

The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as

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a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance

Question 11

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except

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they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry

Question 12

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

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a restriction against black migration from the South

Question 13

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that

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with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in the near future

Question 14

The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

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Tennesse

Question 15

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

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citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves

Question 16

The Fourteenth Amendment

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prohibited from federal and state office those former Confederates who as federal officeholders had once sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution

Question 17

Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of

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the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 18

In the 1866 congressional elections

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voters endorsed the Republican congressional approach to Reconstruction

Question 19

The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

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Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress

Question 20

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promise

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rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.

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