Multiple Choice Questions on U.S. History

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What is a border state?

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A slave state that was neutral during secession but ultimately remained in the Union

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Outcome of Brown v. Board of Education?

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Ended Segregation in Schools & Overturned Plessy

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Plessy v. Ferguson had what outcome?

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Legalization of Segregation

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Which of the following best describes a carpetbagger?

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Someone from the north who has come to the south to oversee reconstruction

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What did radical reconstruction look like?

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Military Districts in the south; All States had to accept new amendments to be readmitted to the Union

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Which of the following was NOT a plan considered for reconstruction? Confederate Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, Lincoln's Reconstruction, Johnson's Reconstruction

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Confederate Reconstruction

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In the Civil War, the north was called the ________ and the south was a separate nation called the ________.

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Union, Confederacy

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Which of the following ended reconstruction?

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The Compromise of 1877

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Ways African Americans were disenfranchised in the South before and after Reconstruction.

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Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Ku Klux Klan?

• They were comparable to the Freedmen's Bureau
• It was started by Nathan Bedford Forrest
• It was stopped after Ulysses S. Grant suspended Habeas Corpus
• It began in Pulaski, Tennessee

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They were comparable to the Freedmen's Bureau