Chapter 15 : Reconstruction

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The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed?

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citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.

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During Reconstruction, which of the following was a change that took place in the South? African Americans were able to exercise political rights., African Americans favored the Democratic Party., Many African Americans found manufacturing employment, Many White Southerners supported African American rights.

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African Americans were able to exercise political rights.

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One key change immediately following the Civil War was the?

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establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights

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Which of the following groups would be most likely to support black suffrage? Northern opponents of the war, Veterans of the Confederate Army, Radical Republicans, Southern politicians

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Radical Republicans

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The Civil War resulted in the?

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expansion of federal power

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Which of the following best characterizes the "sectional reunion" that took place through the terms of the Compromise of 1877? Options: Gilded Age financial policies encouraged economic growth in the North and the South., The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves., New political alliances united northern and southern members of the Democratic Party to win control of both houses in Congress., White laborers in the North and African American farmers in the South joined together in the Populist movement.

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The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.

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Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when? Options: the Supreme Court ruled in Ex-parte Milligan that military tribunals could not try civilians., the last federal troops were removed in 1877., blacks showed they could defend their rights without federal intervention., the South accepted the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments., President Johnson was not reelected in 1868.

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the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in?

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the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South

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The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was that?

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Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the South.

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Which of the following best explains why Reconstruction came to an end in 1877? Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve., The theory of Social Darwinism encouraged political and business leaders to reduce efforts to create racial equality in the South., Mass immigration from abroad and internal migration of African Americans reduced racial tensions in the North and South., The federal government established a limited social welfare state that reduced regional differences between the North and South.

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Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.