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Certificate History for TExES Core Subjects EC-6 291 Quiz on Westward Expansion, Civil War and Reconstruction, created by Michele Papa on 20/07/2016.
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Question 1

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After the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory, President [blank_start]Jefferson[blank_end] appointed Captains [blank_start]Meriwether Lewis[blank_end] and [blank_start]William Clark[blank_end] to explore it.
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  • Jefferson
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • William Clark

Question 2

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In what year did the United States and Britain sign a treaty giving up British claims south of the 49th parallel?
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  • 1846
  • 1815
  • 1821

Question 3

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Mexico was [blank_start]lenient[blank_end] about slavery in Texas.
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  • lenient
  • strict

Question 4

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After admitting Texas a state, President [blank_start]Polk[blank_end] wanted U.S. control of the entire Southwest. He sent a diplomatic mission with an ofer to purchase New Mexico and Upper California. The Mexican government [blank_start]refused to meet[blank_end].
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  • refused to meet
  • Polk

Question 5

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Since Mexico did not sell the United States New Mexico and Upper California, both countries declared war in [blank_start]1846[blank_end].
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  • 1846

Question 6

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The southwestern boundary of the United States was completed in [blank_start]1853[blank_end].
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  • 1853

Question 7

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Slavery in the English colonies began in 1619 when [blank_start]twenty Africans[blank_end] arrived in the colony of [blank_start]Virginia[blank_end] at Jamestown.
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  • twenty Africans
  • Virginia

Question 8

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After 1815 the nation enjoyed the "[blank_start]era of good feelings[blank_end]." People were moving into the West; industry and agriculture were growing; and national pride united Americans.
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  • era of good feelings

Question 9

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The [blank_start]American System[blank_end] was proposed by Henry Clay. This tariff's purpose was to fund road building and other infrastructure as well as to create a national bank. This tariff was passed in [blank_start]1824[blank_end].
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  • American System
  • 1824

Question 10

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In the presidential election of 1824, [blank_start]John C. Calhoun[blank_end] had proposed the very high tariffs in an effort to get Eastern business interests to vote with the agricultural interests in the South.
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  • John C. Calhoun

Question 11

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Vice President Calhoun declared that if any state felt that a federal law was [blank_start]unconstitutional[blank_end], that state could [blank_start]nullify[blank_end] it.
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  • unconstitutional
  • nullify

Question 12

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In [blank_start]1832[blank_end], Congress lowered the tariff slightly but not enough to please [blank_start]South Carolina[blank_end], which promptly declared it null and void, threatening to [blank_start]secede from the Union[blank_end].
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  • 1832
  • South Carolina
  • secede from the Union

Question 13

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With the admission of [blank_start]Missouri[blank_end], slavery would not be allowed in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory [blank_start]north[blank_end] of latitude [blank_start]36[blank_end] degrees [blank_start]30[blank_end]'.
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  • Missouri
  • north
  • 36
  • 30

Question 14

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Admitting Missouri as a state was the first serious clash between North and South.
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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In its state constitution, the Missouri Territory [blank_start]allowed[blank_end] slavery.
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  • allowed

Question 16

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Admitting Missouri would also result in an [blank_start]imbalance of U.S. senators[blank_end].
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  • imbalance of U.S. senators

Question 17

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The [blank_start]Missouri Compromise[blank_end] resolved the conflict by approving admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
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  • Missouri Compromise

Question 18

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[blank_start]Henry Clay[blank_end], known as the Great Compromiser, proposed a second Missouri Compromise. The U.S. Constitution guaranteed [blank_start]protections[blank_end] and [blank_start]privileges[blank_end] to citizens of states, and Missouri's proposed constitution could no deny these to any of its citizens.
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  • Henry Clay
  • protections
  • privileges

Question 19

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The [blank_start]Doctrine of Nullification[blank_end] stated that the states had the right to nullify any act of Congress they believed to be unjust or unconstitutional.
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  • Doctrine of Nullification

Question 20

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The [blank_start]nullification crisis[blank_end] climaxed over a new tariff on imported manufactured goods that was enacted by Congress in 1828.
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  • nullification crisis

Question 21

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The [blank_start]tariff[blank_end] on imported manufactured goods was primarily intended to protect [blank_start]northern[blank_end] manufacturing interests in the face of imports from other countries, the effect on the [blank_start]south[blank_end] was to simply raise the prices of needed goods.
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  • northern
  • south
  • tariff

Question 22

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In [blank_start]1858[blank_end], Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were running for office of U.S. Senator from Illinois and participated in a series of debates, which directly affected the outcome of the 1860 [blank_start]presidential election[blank_end].
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  • 1858
  • presidential election

Question 23

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Douglas was the [blank_start]democratic[blank_end] candidate and Lincoln was the [blank_start]republican[blank_end] candidate.
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  • democratic
  • republican

Question 24

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Lincoln viewed slavery as [blank_start]morally wrong[blank_end] and he firmly supported his party principle that slavery must [blank_start]not be[blank_end] allowed to extend further.
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  • not be
  • morally wrong

Question 25

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[blank_start]Popular sovereignty[blank_end]: people living in territories and states should be allowed to decide for themselves whether slavery should be permitted.
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  • Popular sovereignty

Question 26

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In 1849, [blank_start]California[blank_end] applied for admission to the Union.
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  • California

Question 27

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The [blank_start]Compromise of 1850[blank_end] was a series of laws designed to solve the issue of slave versus free states. California was admitted as a [blank_start]free[blank_end] state and slave trading was [blank_start]abolished[blank_end] in Washington D.C. New Mexico and Utah territories were created and the southerners were allowed to choose to keep slavery in these states. Congress also authorized implementation of stricter measures to capture [blank_start]runaway slaves[blank_end].
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  • Compromise of 1850
  • free
  • abolished
  • runaway slaves

Question 28

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The Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories with the [blank_start]Dred Scott Decision[blank_end].
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  • Dred Scott Decision

Question 29

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In the debate between Lincoln and Douglas regarding the Dred Scott case, Douglas stated that territorial legislatures could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it. With this statement, Douglas [blank_start]won[blank_end] the race for senator and [blank_start]lost[blank_end] the [blank_start]nomination[blank_end] for president.
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  • won
  • lost
  • nomination

Question 30

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[blank_start]South Carolina[blank_end] was the first state to secede from the Union.
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  • South Carolina

Question 31

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The first shots of the Civil War were fired on [blank_start]Fort Sumter[blank_end] in Charleston harbor.
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  • Fort Sumter

Question 32

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The [blank_start]North[blank_end] had a larger population; superiority in finances and transportation facilities; and manufacturing, agricultural, and natural resources.
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  • North

Question 33

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There were [blank_start]24[blank_end] Northern states, including CA, OR, MD, DE, KY, MO and WV
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  • 24

Question 34

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The Southern states numbered eleven and included...
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  • SC
  • GA
  • FL
  • AL
  • LA
  • TX
  • VA
  • NC
  • KY
  • AR

Question 35

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The South knew they were at a disadvantage and did not expect to win the Civil War.
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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An advantage of the [blank_start]South[blank_end] is that a number of its best officers had graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at [blank_start]West[blank_end] [blank_start]Point[blank_end] and had had long years of army experience.
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  • South
  • West
  • Point

Question 37

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Men from the [blank_start]South[blank_end] were conditioned to living outdoors and were more familiar with horses and firearms.
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  • South

Question 38

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The major aim of the Confederacy never wavered: to win [blank_start]independence[blank_end], the right to [blank_start]govern[blank_end] themselves as they wished, and to [blank_start]preserve[blank_end] slavery.
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  • independence
  • govern
  • preserve

Question 39

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The [blank_start]northerners[blank_end] were not as clear in their reasons for conducting war. At the beginning, most believed that [blank_start]preservation[blank_end] of the Union was paramount. By the war's end more northerners had come to believe that [blank_start]freeing the slaves[blank_end] was just as important.
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  • northerners
  • preservation
  • freeing the slaves

Question 40

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The Civil War took more American lives than any other war in history.
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  • True
  • False

Question 41

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The [blank_start]South[blank_end] lost one-third of its soldiers in battle compared to about one-sixth for the [blank_start]North[blank_end].
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  • South
  • North

Question 42

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More than half of the total deaths were caused by [blank_start]disease[blank_end] and the horrendous conditions of [blank_start]field hospitals[blank_end].
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  • disease
  • field hospitals

Question 43

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The Civil War resulted in the destruction of towns, farms, trade, industry, lives, and homes. An entire [blank_start]Southern[blank_end] way of life was lost.
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  • Southern

Question 44

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The Civil War has been called the first modern war. It changed the methods of waging war. Civil War soldiers were the first to
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  • fight in trenches
  • fight under a unified command
  • wage "major cordon defense," a strategy of advance on all fronts
  • use repeating and breech-loading weapons
  • use observation balloons
  • use submarines, ironclad ships, and mines
  • utilize telegraphy and railroads
  • utilize guerrilla warfare
  • drop atomic bombs

Question 45

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The Civil War was considered a [blank_start]modern[blank_end] war because of the vast destruction it created, and it was a "[blank_start]total war[blank_end]," involving the use of all of the resources of the opposing sides.
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  • modern
  • total war

Question 46

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After the Civil War, Lincoln [blank_start]did not[blank_end] propose to punish the South.
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  • did not
  • did

Question 47

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Lincoln's program to restore the Union consisted of two major steps. They included...
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  • All Southerners must swear an oath of allegiance to the Union, promising to accept all federal laws and proclamations dealing with slavery.
  • A state would be able to write a new constitution, elect new officials, and return to the Union fully equal to all other states as long as a minimum number of persons take an oath of allegiance.
  • Those who were a part of the Confederate government, those in the Confederate army above the rank of lieutenant, and Confederates who were guilty of mistreating prisoners of war and blacks were not eligible to receive a full pardon.
  • Men who had resigned from the civil and military positions in the federal government to serve in the Confederacy were required to take an oath of allegiance and serve time in jail to receive a full pardon.

Question 48

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Reconstruction refers to the period between [blank_start]1865[blank_end] and [blank_start]1877[blank_end] when the federal and state governments debated and implemented plans to provide [blank_start]civil rights[blank_end] to freed slaves and to set the terms under which the former [blank_start]Confederate[blank_end] states might once again join the Union.
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  • 1865
  • 1877
  • civil rights
  • Confederate

Question 49

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In [blank_start]1865[blank_end], Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, leaving Vice President [blank_start]Andrew[blank_end] [blank_start]Johnson[blank_end] to oversee the beginning of the implementation of Reconstruction.
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  • 1865
  • Andrew
  • Johnson

Question 50

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Johnson allowed former Confederates to keep control of their state governments which consequently enacted [blank_start]Black Codes[blank_end]. These [blank_start]denied[blank_end] the vote to blacks and granted them [blank_start]limited[blank_end] civil rights.
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  • Black Codes
  • denied
  • limited

Question 51

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The radical Republicans in Congress sought to override the Black Codes by granting [blank_start]U.S. citizenship[blank_end] to blacks by passing a [blank_start]civil[blank_end] [blank_start]rights[blank_end] bill. Johnson [blank_start]vetoed[blank_end] the bill and Congress received the necessary [blank_start]votes[blank_end] to pass the law.
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  • U.S. citizenship
  • civil
  • rights
  • vetoed
  • votes

Question 52

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In 1866, the radical Republicans won control of Congress and passed the [blank_start]Reconstruction[blank_end] [blank_start]Acts[blank_end], which placed the [blank_start]governments[blank_end] of the southern states under the control of the federal military.
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  • Reconstruction
  • Acts
  • governments

Question 53

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[blank_start]Scalawags[blank_end] were white southerners who had not supported the Confederacy.
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  • Scalawags

Question 54

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[blank_start]Carpetbaggers[blank_end] were northerners who had moved to the South.
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  • Carpetbaggers

Question 55

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Resentful of Republican control, white southerners fought the new political system by joining a secret society called the [blank_start]Ku Klux Klan[blank_end]. It used [blank_start]violence[blank_end] to keep black Americans from voting and was a loos group made up mainly of former Confederate soldiers who opposed the Reconstruction government. They espoused a doctrine of [blank_start]white[blank_end] [blank_start]supremacy[blank_end].
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  • Ku Klux Klan
  • violence
  • white
  • supremacy

Question 56

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In 1871, President [blank_start]Ulysses[blank_end] [blank_start]S[blank_end]. [blank_start]Grant[blank_end] took action to use federal troops to halt the activities of the KKK and actively [blank_start]prosecuted[blank_end] them in federal court.
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  • Ulysses
  • S
  • Grant
  • prosecuted

Question 57

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Between [blank_start]1866[blank_end] and [blank_start]1870[blank_end], all of the states had returned to the Union.
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  • 1866
  • 1870

Question 58

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Reconstruction was a limited success. It
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  • established public school systems
  • expanded legal rights of black Americans
  • successfully granted civil rights to freed slaves
  • prosecuted former Confederate states

Question 59

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The [blank_start]Emancipation Proclamation[blank_end] of 1863 and the [blank_start]Thirteenth Amendment[blank_end] in 1865 ended slavery in the United States.
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  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Thirteenth Amendment

Question 60

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The [blank_start]Redeemer[blank_end] governments consisted of Democrats who took control after federal troops and Republicans left at the end of Reconstruction. The rise of these governments marked the beginning of the [blank_start]Jim Crow[blank_end] laws and official [blank_start]segregation[blank_end].
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  • Redeemer
  • segregation
  • Jim Crow

Question 61

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Blacks were allowed to vote but [blank_start]literacy tests[blank_end] and [blank_start]poll taxes[blank_end] made it difficult to do so.
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  • literacy tests
  • poll taxes

Question 62

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This court case upheld the Jim Crow laws in 1896 in the case [blank_start]Plessy[blank_end] v. [blank_start]Ferguson[blank_end]. [blank_start]Louisiana[blank_end] passed a law requiring separate train cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, [blank_start]Homer[blank_end] [blank_start]Plessy[blank_end] purchased a ticket in the white section and did not move when he was told to.
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  • Plessy
  • Ferguson
  • Louisiana
  • Homer
  • Plessy

Question 63

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Segregating races was not unconstitutional as long as the facilities for each were [blank_start]identical[blank_end]. This became known as the "[blank_start]separate but equal[blank_end]" principle.
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  • identical
  • separate but equal
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