What is an accurate explanation of the souths redeemers

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1. Which of the following is NOT true about the Radical-dominated Reconstruction Congress?

A. The central focus of its program was to protect the civil rights of blacks.

B. It sought to build Republican party support in the South by winning the black vote and curtailing the power of the planter class.

C. Its influence grew when Johnson's vetoes drove moderates into the Radical camp.

D. Its influence waned when northern voters repudiated Radical congressmen at the polls in 1866.

2. What won the support of congressional moderates for the Radical program?

A. the behavior of southern Reconstruction governments

B. the persuasive actions of Radicals in rallying public opinion for their program

C. secret lobbying offering lucrative opportunities in a South occupied by northern troops

D. the president's uncompromising veto of a civil rights bill

3. Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers.?

A. Gradually, conservative and racist white Democrats regained political control in the former Confederate states.

B. A fresh wave of evangelical revivals spread across "the Bible Belt'

C. Southern acceptance of the end of slavery meant northern acceptance of the South as a restored section.

D. Southern states gradually came to experience economic prosperity and development.

4. The Second Confiscation Act of 1862 had authorized the government to seize and sell the property of supporters of the rebellion: however., President Johnson ruled that the law

A. applied only to wartime.

B. was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.

C. should be used only under the most extreme circumstances.

D. didn't apply, as the secretary of war did not have legal standing in land issue cases.

5. Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction on impeachment charges because

A. of his earlier cooperative attitude toward Congress.

B. Radical Republicans xere beginning to support his policies.

C. some Republicans feared that removal would set a bad precedent for using impeachment as a political weapon against the presidency.

D. only a minority of the Senate voted to convict.

6. Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for?

A. citizenship and suffrage for former slaves

B. a requirement that southern states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before readmission

C. military occupation

D. a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen

7. One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

A. fact that males would rather work for wages than live the rough life of a sharecropper.

B. small but tidy homes built by hand in villages separate from the land they farmed.

C. tendency for husbands to insist that their wives and children work alongside them in the fields.

D. adoption of a surname.

8. The Fifteenth Amendment

A. abolished slavery.

B. defined citizenship.

C. expanded suffrage.

D. officially ended Reconstruction.

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