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How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against free men and women?
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The president sent troops to retain order in the South and arrest perpetrators.
They did nothing; the administration was busy grappling with the problems of the Whiskey Ring. Grant sent a stern warning including threats of censuring southern Congressmen until the violence ceased. The administration passed two laws making it a felony to interfere with the right to vote and allowing the government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to end Klan violence. Grant pushed for a measure to make the Ku Klux Klan illegal in the South. |
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Congress responded to Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan, as it was known, by passing the
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Seventy-five-Percent Plan.
iron-clad oath bill. Reconstruction Act. Owen-Keating Bill. Wade-Davis Bill. |
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 did not include restrictions on racial discrimination in
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public facilities.
places of amusement. the workplace. transportation lines. juries. |
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Passed by most of the new southern state governments during Reconstruction, the Black Codes did all of the following except
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allow African Americans to buy and sell land.
legalize black marriages while banning interracial marriage. permit African Americans to sit on juries. make it legal for police to round up black vagrants and hire them out to white landowners. increase the physical separation of black and white Americans. |
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In an effort to gain the right to vote, African Americans did all of the following during the Reconstruction era except
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They marched for it.
They paraded to advocate for bills endorsing it. They lionized black Revolutionary heroes to establish their credentials as vote-casting Americans. They attempted to unite with the women's suffrage movement. They held mock elections to show their capacity and desire to participate in the American political process. |
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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prohibited any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
was initiated by the moderates in Congress who wanted to get the issue settled quickly. was designed to protect the rights of black males and immigrant, non-citizen males. was ratified and adopted in 1867, before any of the southern states returned to Congress. specifically denied women the right to vote. |
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Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners
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began advertising in the North and in Europe for farm workers, determined not to use black labor and pay for it.
tried without success to force blacks who had once been their slaves to work under very similar conditions, even to the point of using the whip. could not understand how they were to treat the former slaves, since they had never been in that situation before. decided to make the first overtures and directly offered shorter hours and no gang work. sold their plantations rather than have to hire and pay free blacks. |
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Radical Republicans in Congress sought to
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break up Southern plantations into small, self-sufficient farms.
expel Southern states as punishment for their rebellion. expand the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and pass the Civil Rights Act. execute the leaders of the Confederacy. start a discussion about Northern guilt for the crime of slavery. |
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White Redeemers terrorized African Americans in the South with arson, assassinations, and intimidation in order to
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get blacks to emigrate back to Africa.
push freedmen to migrate to the North. keep black men from voting. prevent black men from dating and marrying white women. force black men to work for them for substandard pay. |
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What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?
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The amendments' exclusive focus on rights for black men angered many suffragists.
The movement divided over whether to support African Americans first and women second. Women, who had long advocated for the rights of minorities, felt betrayed. Suffragists were incensed that the word "male" would be linked to voting rights in the Constitution. All of these choices. |
