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Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers"?
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Selected Answer: Gradually, conservative and racist white Democrats regained political control in the former Confederate states.

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Which of the following was probably not the intention of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment?
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Selected Answer: to prevent segregation in schools and public places

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Which of the following is true about Abraham Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson?
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Selected Answer: He lacked any concern for the welfare of African Americans.

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What was the most powerful source of political unity among white conservatives in the South?
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Selected Answer: race

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Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for?
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Selected Answer: a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen

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The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated
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Selected Answer: despair and defiance.

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In the 1872 election, presidential contender Horace Greeley could best be described as a
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Selected Answer: liberal Republican.

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Why were most teachers in Freedmen's Bureau's schools black in 1969?
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Selected Answer: Volunteers faced Southern white hostility and difficult teaching conditions.

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In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as
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Selected Answer: farmers under a

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