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Mr. Potter - 8th Grade US History
Chapter 16 Quiz
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8th Grade
02/11/2013

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What was the name for the communities that were built around Southern textile industries?
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mill towns
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What agricultural economic system developed in the South after the Civil War?
Definition
sharecropping
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What large territory did the United States acquire during the Johnson administration?
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Alaska
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What did the House of Representatives do to President Johnson after he had dismissed his secretary of war?
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impeached him
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Which Constitutional amendment dealt with citizenship?
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the Fourteenth Amendment
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What federal relief agency was established to help the freed slaves in the South?
Definition
the Freedmen's Bureau
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What was the name of the laws passed in the South to keep the freed slaves restricted to an inferior position in southern society?
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black codes
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Which Constitutional amendment abolished slavery?
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the Thirteenth Amendment
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Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president?
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Andrew Johnson
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What name describes the group of politicians who believed that Lincoln and Johnson were too lenient with the South and who wished to punish the South severely for its part in the war?
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Radical Republicans
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What was the name of Lincoln's plan for reconstructing the South?
Definition
the Ten Percent Plan
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What term was used for former slaves following the Civil War?
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freedmen
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What term denotes the time following the Civil War in which the nation dealt with the problems left by the war?
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Reconstruction
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The presidential election of 1876 was unusual in that it was...
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settled by a special electoral commission
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Whose administration was marked by the most political corruption?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who won the presidential election of 1868?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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President Johnson was impeached for his supposed violation of the...
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Tenure of Office Act
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The law that established military rule in the South was the....
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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The Radical Republicans objected to all of the following except

-the extension of executive powers during the Civil War.

-treatment of the South as erring brethren rather than a conquered foreign nation.

-the Wade-Davis Bill

-Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

Definition
the Wade-Davis Bill
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When the Civil War ended, the South was left to suffer all of the following problems except

-an inadequate labor force

-large numbers of immigrants

-severe property damage

-a lack of money

Definition
large numbers of immigrants
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