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- [Seneca Falls]Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century bestrepresented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?(A) The formation of voluntary organizations and reform efforts(B) Women's support for the Social Gospel(C) Support for outlawing the production and sale of alcohol(D) A movement focused on religious revivals and personal conversion
- [Truman Doctrine]Truman issued the doctrine primarily in order to(A) support decolonization in Asia and Africa(B) support United States allies in Latin America(C) protect United States interests in the Middle East(D) bolster noncommunist nations, particularly in Europe
- a term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were made to expand the economy by building up industry
- laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
- an examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
- an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
- a white southerners who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
- the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
- an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
- an 1869 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.
- an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
- a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by the means of violence.
- a government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
- a tax required before a person can vote
- a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.
- in the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if the grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1st, 1867
- an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as president after the disputed election in 1876.
- the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
- an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of laws.
- an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race.