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What led to resentment and violence among many white Southerners after the Civil War?

the rewriting of state constitutions

the attempts to end the Ku Klux Klan

the policies of the Democratic Party

the policies of the Republican Party

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Who was Blanche Bruce?

a leader and founding member of the Ku Klux Klan

a presidential candidate from the Republican Party

the first African American politician to serve in Congress

the founder of the first school for African American children

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was significant because it

placed the South under military rule and created districts.

granted all African American men the right to vote.

prohibited states from denying the right to vote due to race.

was the first in a series of laws that protected African Americans.

Which was founded by former Confederate Army officers in Tennessee in 1866?

the Carpetbaggers

the Ku Klux Klan

the Scalawags

the Tennessee legislature

Fading support for Reconstruction was preceded by

the Liberal Republicans joining the Republican Party.

a Democratic candidate assuming the presidency in 1868.

members of Grant’s administration being accused of bribery.

violence breaking out against African Americans in Memphis.

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was significant because it

granted suffrage to all African American men.

gave all adult African Americans the right to vote.

made it illegal to deny the right to vote due to race.

granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

Which statement best describes the government participation of African Americans during Reconstruction?

African Americans were excluded from participating in government at any level.

African Americans participated widely in local government in the South.

African Americans became the most powerful voice in Southern state governments.

African Americans were elected to positions in local, state, and national government.

What nationwide event weakened support for the federal government in the mid-1870s?

the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866

an attack on African Americans in Memphis

the passage of the Reconstruction Act

an economic panic and depression

Why were some African Americans interested in serving as “Buffalo Soldiers” on the western frontier after 1866?

They wanted to contribute to the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War.

They were promised land in exchange for their military service.

They intended to seize lands from Indigenous tribes for resettlement of freedmen.

They saw the military as a career opportunity when other jobs were denied them.

How did the Compromise of 1877 mark the beginning of the end of Reconstruction?

It removed federal troops from the South.

It placed a Democrat in the White House.

It ensured that Democrats would join the cabinet.

It created a split within the Republican Party.

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