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| True/False: During the war, the Republican-dominated Congress established a new Bank of the United States and sharply reduced tariffs. |
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| True/False: A number of conspirators were punished for the assassination of President Lincoln. |
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| True/False: Most Radical Republicans had no sincere commitment to African American rights. |
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| True/False: President Johnson opposed the extension of the Freedmen's Bureau. |
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| True/False: The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts. |
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| True/False: After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson, the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote. |
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| True/False: The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified during the Civil War. |
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| True/False: Radical Republicans generally neglected the needs of black education in the South. |
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| True/False: "Scalawags" was the derogatory name given to native white Republicans in the South. |
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| True/False: Defeat in the war made southern whites less religious. |
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| True/False: Democrats generally favored sound-monetary, or hard-monetary, policies. |
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| True/False: The Credit Mobilier scandal led to the expulsion of several congressman accused of embezzling most of the profits of black-owned business that they had helped establish. |
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| True/False: Waving "the bloody shirt" meant referring to the Civil War and the southern rebellion in order to discredit political opponents. |
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| True/False: Despite winning the popular vote in 1876, Samuel Tilden lost the presidency. |
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| True/False: In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans promised to withdraw federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina. |
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| was a Democratic presidential candidate in 1876. |
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| said treason, "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished" |
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| was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana. |
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| was a senator from Mississippi. |
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| was a secretary of war under Johnson until 1867. |
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| was a Georgian elected to the U.S. Senate in 1865 |
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| was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation. |
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| was a senator from Massachusetts, a leading Radical Republican. |
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| opposed Grant in the 1872 presidential sectional reconciliation. |
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| The Radical state governments in the South promoted railroad construction, established public schools, built roads and bridges, and provided opportunities for ex-slaves EXCEPT |
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| Because of the Confederacy's defeat, religious-minded white southerners: |
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| Saw no reason to change their thinking. |
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| brought little political experience and judgment to the presidency. |
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| "Hard-money" advocates argued that the government debt should be: |
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| Jay Gould and James Fish triggered a scandal with their scheme to: |
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| By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to the Reconstruction efforts had: |
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| The primary objective of the Ku Klux Klan was: |
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| oppressing blacks and white Republicans. |
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| What contributed to a weakening of Republican control in the South? |
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| electoral fraud, white supremacist violence, the panic of 1873, the growing weakness of Grant's administration. |
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| The Specie Resumption Act, passed by Congress in 1875: |
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| called for the resumption of the policy of withdrawing greenbacks from circulation. |
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| Why didn't President Grant seek a third term in 1876: |
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| He was restricted by the Constitution to two terms. |
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