(2016)Which region’s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?
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(2016)Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited.
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.
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(2016)Who made this statement?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Tubman
Phillis Wheatley
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(2016)Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?
Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.
Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets.
Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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(2016)After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to —
punish plantation owners for the use of slavery
support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South
promote the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau
limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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(2016)How did the loss of its control of the Mississippi River contribute to the defeat of the Confederacy?
The river had provided direct access to the Union’s base of military operations.
Losing control of the river removed the physical barrier between slave and free states.
The river had provided the Confederacy with a power source for factories and mills.
Losing control of the river divided the Confederacy in two and cut off its supplies.
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(2016)Many historians argue that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln changed the course of Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?
Radical Republicans took control of Congress.
Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts.
The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress.
Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction.
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