american history emcc final| 120 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?: correct answer: the future of political and economic power for freed slaves, and the future of North-South economic and political relations. The "grandfather clause"?: correct answer: denied black Americans the franchise in the South. Under new President Andrew Johnson, presidential Reconstruction?: correct answer: made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions of power in the reconstructed southern governments. In the Supreme Court case of United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment?: correct answer: covered only violations of civil rights by the states, and not violations by private individuals. The North interpreted Black Codes as?: correct answer: evidence that the South sought to keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status. Which of the following was NOT a feature of Abraham Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan"?: correct answer: southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who had formerly worked there as slaves. During the Reconstruction, what groups was the backbone of the Republican party in the South, providing eight out of ten Republican votes?: correct answer: freedmen. In 1867, Secretary of State Seward accomplished an enduring success in foreign relations for the Johnson administration when he?: correct answer: purchased Alaska from Russia. In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant?: correct answer: owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. Americans in the post-Civil War decades who waved the bloody shirt were?: correct answer: labor supporters protesting the Haymarket riot. Which of the following did NOT contribute to the end of the open range cattle industry?: correct answer: railroads. The United States' policy toward the Native American changed dramatically with the passage in 1887 of the Dawes Act, which?: correct answer: treated the tribes as independent nations. The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier shaped America by?: correct answer: stimulating individualism, nationalism, and democracy.