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- What racist organization best symbolized the "white backlash" of the Reconstruction era?
- In addition to Abraham Lincoln, who else did the conspirators plan to assassinate?
- The federal agency designed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom was known as the
- What was the term southerners used for a white southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?
- Approximately what percentage of slaves in Louisiana lived on plantations in the Antebellum era?Select one:a.10 %b.52 %c.25 %d.90%
- Which state came into the US as a "slave" state because of the Missouri Compromise?
- The Radicals in Congress proposed two reconstruction plans. One was known as Congressional Reconstruction. What was the other?
- During the Civil War, about________ African Americans served in the Union army.
- Historians generally accept several factors leading to the split between the North and the South. What were they?
- What was the goal of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
- Who surrendered to the Union army at Appomattox Court House in April of 1865
- The constitution of the Confederacy, drafted at a convention in what southern city?
- By the onset of the Civil War, abolitionists wanted the immediate end of slavery and full rights as citizens for both blacks and women. True or False?
- To secure the necessary troops for the war, both the North and the South did what
- In his inaugural address, Lincoln declared that the Union could not be dissolved by individual state actions, and, therefore, secession was unconstitutional. True or False?
- At the onset of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln's primary objective was the preservation of the Union, not the emancipation of slaves. True or False?
- 11. The bloodiest one-day battle of the war was_____, which took place on September 17,1862.
- The constitution of the Confederacy, drafted at a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861, closely followed the 1787 Constitution but legalized racial slavery. True or False
- In the nineteenth century, which protestant denomination grew in numbers in the United States due to increased immigration from Germany?
- What was Abraham Lincoln's principle war objective in 1861