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- ______ ____ _____ _____ - an act passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union to ensure new governments had racial equality
- ______ (#) a constitutional amendment to prevent states from denying black people the right to vote
- What is true about cowboys? 1) spent much time watching and waiting, 2) were often immigrants and black people, 3) burned brands onto their cow's hides
- ______________ - is to accuse a public official in office of wrongdoing while in office
- ______ was a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to get a government job
- After Abraham Lincoln was assasinated, his Vice President _______, became president>
- Americans called the SOUTH the "Great American Desert".True if the statement is true: if the statement is false, write the correction for the CAPITALIZED word
- Indians who lived east of the Mississippi were relocated to INDIAN TERRITORY. True if the statement is true: if the statement is false, write the correction for the CAPITALIZED word
- Who was called the Christian General? 1) George Custer, 2) Oliver O. Howard, 3) Chief Joseph
- What were the name of the group made up of the Cherokee, Chocktaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole Indians>
- What was true about sodbusters: 1) had ample water supply, 2) built their houses out of sod, 3) used steel plows and windmills
- Southern "redemption" meant that Southern REPUBLICANS had won back control of their states. True if the statement is true: if the statement is false, write the correction for the CAPITALIZED word
- Democrats viewed the REPUBLICANS as the party of carpetbaggers, blacks and scalawags. True if the statement is true: if the statement is false, write the correction for the CAPITALIZED word
- How did the colonists show their opposition to British actions?
- Where were the first two battles of the American Revolution fought? Who won them?
- What are the 3 natural rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?
- What did Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlet call the colonists to do?
- The politics of Reconstruction led to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in the United States House of Representatives, but:
- What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies?White men beat or shot black men with relative impunity, and did so over minor squabbles, labor disputes, longstanding grudges, and crimes of passionAll of the answers are correct.Attacking black candidates and office holders and frightening voters with threats of violenceTargeting freedpeople who tried to purchase land or otherwise become too independent from the white masters they used to rely on
- Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of the following effects?Limited black mobilityAll of the answers are correct.Locked many into exploitative farming contractsCriminalized black leisure