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1. The Civil War battle at Vicksburg was significant because:
(A) the Union gained control of the Mississippi River
(B) Confederate forces were able to overpower the larger Union army
(C) after the battle, most European nations recognized the legal
existence of the Confederacy
(D) it was the first Civil War battle in the North
(E) it was General Lee's only victory in Pennsylvania
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(A) Grant defeated Southern forces.
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2. Carpetbaggers may be most accurately described as:
(A) white Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
(B) white Southerners who moved north during Reconstruction
(C) proslavery Southerners who moved to the territories during
Reconstruction
(D) Northerners who came south during Reconstruction
(E) Northern abolitionists who agitated in the South in the 1850s
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(D) Carpetbaggers were adventurers.
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3. In his proclamation of amnesty in 1865, President Andrew Johnson promised
to pardon all Southerners who:
(A) laid down arms
(B) emancipated their slaves
(C) had never served in the Confederate Army
(D) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
(E) promised to uphold the 15th Amendment
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(D) Radical Republicans found the Johnson plan too lenient.
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4. The black codes of the Reconstruction era may be best described as:
(A) Southern vagrancy laws
(B) state laws enacted by black legislatures
(C) congressional laws enforced by federal troops
(D) laws supported in Congress by radical Republicans
(E) state laws to insure black rights
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(A) The black codes were vagrancy and apprenticeship laws enacted in the
southern states in order to control the newly freed black population.
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5. "Jim Crow" laws may be most accurately described as:
(A) laws restricting free blacks in the South from 1800 to 1860
(B) laws restricting segregation in the South from 1850 to 1877
(C) laws enforcing segregation in the South before 1850
(D) laws enforcing segregation in the South that were written after 1877
(E) extralegal, unwritten southern traditions
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(D) By 1900, all southern states had laws enforcing segregation in effect.
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6. The attempt to remove President Johnson from office in 1868 resulted in:
(A) failure of the Judiciary Committee to reach a decision
(B) failure to impeach in the House
(C) failure to impeach in the Senate
(D) impeachment in the House and acquittal in the Senate
(E) impeachment in the Senate and acquittal in the House
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(D) President Johnson was impeached in the House and acquitted in the Senate by
a one-vote margin.
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7. The Force Acts of the Reconstruction era were intended by Congress to:
(A) enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments
(B) force former Confederate states to rejoin the Union
(C) force former Confederate officers to lay down their arms
(D) force former Confederate soldiers to disband
(E) force former Confederate states to write new constitutions
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(A) The Force Acts were passed to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments.
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8. The United States gained the territory of Alaska by:
(A) purchasing it from England
(B) purchasing it from Russia
(C) purchasing it from Sweden
(D) purchasing it from Norway
(E) invading and occupying it
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(B) The United States, under Secretary of State Seward, bought Alaska from
Russia in 1867.
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