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- 1. The Civil War battle at Vicksburg was significant because:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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
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- 7. The Force Acts of the Reconstruction era were intended by Congress to:
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- (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:
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- (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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