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Impact of Reconstruction — Unit test Answers

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Why did the Ku Klux Klan target carpetbaggers with violence?

A
Carpetbaggers were Southerners who went to the North.
B
Carpetbaggers wanted to help formerly enslaved people.
C
Carpetbaggers were powerful members of the White League.
D
Carpetbaggers were poor White farmers who wanted power.
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How did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies profit from constructing the railroad?

A
by selling railroad lines back to the government at a profit
B
by owning businesses in the towns that developed along the railroad
C
by building railroad monopolies and continually raising prices
D
by selling pieces of land granted to them to build the railroad
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In the 1870s, the US government began an American Indian policy of

A
providing allotments of land.
B
encouraging assimilation.
C
confining tribes on reservations.
D
forcing tribes to relocate.
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As support began to weaken for Reconstruction in the South, the Republican party

A
supported true equility for all people.
B
worked closely with African Americans to rebuild the South.
C
split and formed the new Liberal Republican Party.
D
gained many new members, which unified the party.
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Who founded the Ku Klux Klan?

A
carpetbaggers
B
scalawags
C
proslavery Northerners
D
ex-Confederate soldiers
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Which event happened prior to the signing the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862?

A
Asa Whitney requested the right to build a transcontinental railroad.
B
The end of the Civil War freed veterans to work on the railroad.
C
The Golden Spike ceremony was held in honor of the transcontinental railroad.
D
Railroad workers drilled tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Which of the following became the largest and most powerful white supremacy group?

A
the Ku Klux Klan
B
the White League
C
the Red Shirts
D
Knights of the White Camellia
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In addition to official restrictions, White Southerners blocked African American men from voting by

A
offering to end segregation.
B
using violence and threats.
C
secretly changing election dates.
D
bribing them to stay away from polls.
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Who created the Freedmen’s Bureau in the 1860s?

A
Congress
B
the president
C
the Supreme Court
D
Southern states
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The 1871 Civil Rights Act gave the US president the power to

A
violate property rights.
B
suspend habeas corpus.
C
grant voting rights.
D
serve for a second term.
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To counteract race-related violence, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified to

A
give African American men the right to vote.
B
grant citizenship to African Americans.
C
establish military control of the South.
D
make white supremacy groups illegal.
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What obstacle was faced by both Central Pacific and Union Pacific workers?

A
attacks from Indigenous People on the plains
B
danger from blasting through the Sierra Nevada
C
harsh weather conditions
D
loss of workers to the Gold Rush
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In the late 1800s, some African Americans challenged Jim Crow laws primarily by

A
breaking them.
B
amending them.
C
writing editorials.
D
staging protests.
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Who became president after the 1876 presidential election?

A
Ulysses S. Grant
B
Rutherford B. Hayes
C
Horatio Seymour
D
Samuel J. Tilden

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