Matching
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a. | ratify | d. | carpetbagger | b. | freedmen | e. | scalawag | c. | sharecropper |
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northern who moved to the south to make money
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to approve or adopt
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southern Unionist
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farmers who pay rent with a share of the crop
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former slaves
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a. | Rutherford B. Hayes | d. | Andrew Johnson | b. | John Wilkes Booth | e. | Ulysses S. Grant | c. | Powell
Clayton |
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assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Union General, later elected president
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replaced Lincoln after his death
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became president after the Compromise of 1877
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Arkansas’s 9th governor
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Who became president after the death of Abraham Lincoln?
a. | Elisha Baxter | c. | William H. Grey | b. | Andrew Johnson | d. | Powell Clayton |
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Contracts promising lenders a percentage of the harvested crop were
called
a. | loans. | c. | promissory notes. | b. | black codes. | d. | crop liens. |
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Northerners who came to make money on the South following the war were
called
a. | carpetbaggers. | c. | scalawags. | b. | freedmen. | d. | rebels. |
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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave citizens what rights?
a. | freedom of religion | c. | all adult males the right to vote | b. | full and equal
benefits of all laws regardless of race | d. | both b and c |
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Union leagues in Arkansas were organized to
a. | get people to play cards. | c. | give southern Unionists a place to
discuss politics | b. | bring strong Democratic support to the state. | d. | create new political
parties |
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During Republican Powell Clayton’s term as governor, men were
a. | shot and killed in cold blood for refusing to support Democratic
candidates. | c. | whipped or told they would be killed if they showed up to vote. | b. | welcomed in to
government positions. | d. | both
a and c |
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The thieves responsible for the Hesper Incident were
a. | caught and arrested in Texas. | c. | caught and arrested in Little
Rock. | b. | never captured. | d. | caught and arrested in Memphis. |
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What did Arkansas’s “Redeemer Democrats” believe their main
role was?
a. | to redeem the south from the violence and corruption of the Reconstruction
Era. | c. | to resolve the presidential election of 1877 | b. | to force Arkansas
citizens to accept northern ways | d. | to push U.S. troops out of all southern states |
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Even though the practice of slavery had ended, Democrats established a new
__________ system that created a new kind of slavery.
a. | political | c. | religious | b. | social | d. | economic |
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Near the end of the Civil War, Congress create what became known as the
“Freedmen’s Bureau” to help poor whites, refugees from the war, and
a. | to protect and help freedmen. | c. | to restore power to the southern
Democrats. | b. | to help restore freedom to Confederate soldiers. | d. | to end military rule in southern states like
Arkansas. |
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Short Answer
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Discuss the Constitutional amednments of 1868.
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Discuss the Brooks-Baxter War.
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What was Reconstruction?
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