Exam 15: “what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

A) was the first time the Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as establishing gender equality.
B) was a severe blow to the idea of "separate spheres" for men and women.
C) resulted the following year in congressional passage of the groundbreaking Legal Practice Act.
D) demonstrated that,while racial definitions of freedom were changing,gendered ones still existed.
E) was praised by Bradwell,who went on to become the first woman on the Illinois Supreme Court.

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A) second black U.S.senator
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
C) Presidential Reconstruction
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate
E) envoy to China
F) Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G) Whiskey Ring
H) ended Reconstruction
I) National Woman Suffrage Association
J) Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K) first black U.S.senator
L) secretary of war

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A) passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner.
B) specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freedpeople were entitled.
C) represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race.
D) marked the most important change in the U.S.Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
E) placed into the U.S.Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision.

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A) second black U.S.senator
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
C) Presidential Reconstruction
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate
E) envoy to China
F) Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G) Whiskey Ring
H) ended Reconstruction
I) National Woman Suffrage Association
J) Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K) first black U.S.senator
L) secretary of war

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A) Burlingame had dual citizenship.
B) Burlingame organized a trade conference.
C) Burlingame promoted Asian arts and the culture of the Pacific Ocean.
D) Burlingame turned his back on his U.S.citizenship.
E) Burlingame looked beyond a narrow view of citizenship.

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A) Fourteenth Amendment
B) Fifteenth Amendment
C) Civil Rights Act of 1867
D) Sumner-Stevens Act
E) Reconstruction Act

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A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in the South
B) scandal in the Grant administration
C) origin of "forty acres and a mule"
D) northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction
E) ended Reconstruction
F) government agency that helped blacks in the South
G) black school in Washington,D.C.
H) public official charged with wrongdoing
I) southern-born white Republican
J) targeted the Ku Klux Klan
K) Democrats who took control in the South during the 1870s
L) terrorist organization

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A) They tried to ban African-Americans from voting.
B) They tried to limit economic opportunity.
C) They tried to curb African-American migrations.
D) They wanted to prevent African-American marriages.
E) They hoped to jail African-American leaders.

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A) Washington.
B) Nebraska.
C) Colorado.
D) Utah.
E) Wyoming.

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A) Johnson's lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term,so several voted to acquit him.
B) No one would testify against him.
C) Leading Radical Republican Benjamin Wade brilliantly managed the president's defense.
D) Ulysses Grant urged Republicans to acquit Johnson because convicting him might hurt Grant's chances in the presidential election.
E) Many feared a constitutional crisis because,without a vice president in office,no one knew who would succeed Johnson as president.

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A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) Andrew Johnson.
C) Ulysses Grant.
D) Rutherford Hayes.
E) Chester Arthur.

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A) It was actually a declaration of war against China.
B) It recognized the sovereignty of China.
C) It declared all of East Asia's ports to be America's sphere of influence.
D) It gave Great Britain Hong Kong.
E) It ended the Opium Wars.

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A) tended to come from the border states that had seen most of the vicious fighting during the Civil War.
B) wanted legitimate democracy in the South,with power to be shared by planters and freed slaves.
C) fought Andrew Johnson from the day he entered the White House.
D) fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War.
E) agreed on the need to end slavery but disagreed with one another over whether the freed slaves were entitled to civil rights.

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