Us History Exam 1

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Which of the following best describes the impact European colonization had on the Western Hemisphere's native population?

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(E)
Native populations were often killed off or driven away by the Europeans

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Which of the following imperial powers originally settled the Hydson River Valley?

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(A)
Holland

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The Colony of Georgia was:

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(C) established by England as a penal colony

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Which English colony was established by proprietors that also had investments in the slave trade and therefore introduced slavery into the colonies?

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(D) the Carolinas

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The Duke of Baltimore established the colony of Maryland:

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(C) As a haven for persecuted English Catholics

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French immigrants to the New World tended to inhabit:

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(A) Canada

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As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams:

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(C) established complete religious freedom for all of the colony's settlers

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Which of the following stunted the physical growth of the English colony of New York?

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(E) Aristocrats controlled vast tracts of land

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Which of the following sought to exploit the lucrative furt trade in North America?

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(C) The French and the Dutch

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John Winthrop is associated with what colony?

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(B) Massachussets Bay Colony

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A major goal of the French in wanting to maintain control over the Ohio Valley was to:

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(C) merge its landholdings in Canada to the Mississippi Valley

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The most immediate objective of the Albany Congress was to:

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(E) improve relations with the Iroquois tribes

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As a result of the British-victory in the French and Indian War:

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(E) none of the above

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Which of the following is the correct chronological order?

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(B) 2, 5, 1, 4, 3

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Under Britain's mercantilist policy:

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(D) the colonies were expected to supply Great Britain with raw materials

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Prior to the 1760s, Britain's Navigation Acts

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(C) were only loosely enforced in the American colonies

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The primary goal of the Hat Act, Iron Act, and Wool Act was to:

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(A) subordinate American capitalism to British capitalism

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The Declaration of Rights (adapted from the Suffolk Resolves by the Delegates of the First Continental Congress) declared the ___ null and void:

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(C) The Intolerable Acts

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All of the following are correct regarding the Quebec Act EXCEPT:

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(A) it was warmly accepted by American colonists as a way of building a closer relationship with French colonists

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Conservative delegates to the First continental Congress:

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(D) supported the Galloway plan

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The Declaration of Rights:

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(E) was rejected by the British Parliament

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The opening shots of the American Revolution occurred at:

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(A) the battles of Lexington and Concord

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Which one of the following was NOT an advantage the British had in their war effort to suppress the American rebellion?

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(B) shorter supply lines

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The Olive Branch Petition:

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(E) was an attempt by the First Continental Congress to prevent further hostilities after the Battle of Bunker Hill

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Which of the following British measures declared that because the American colonies were in open rebellion against the British crown, all trade would be suspended?

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(D) the Prohibitory Act

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Thomas Paine:

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(C) wrote "Common Sense," an appeal to the colonists to resist the British and establish a republican form of government

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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the American Revolution because:

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(A) The French entered the war on the American side

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THe argument that "abuses and usurpations" by King George and his government violated the social contract that had existed between Britain and its American colonies was articulatd in:

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(E) the declaration of independence

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The Regulator Movement, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Paxton Boys:

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(B) indicate to some historians the undemocratic nature of the Pre-Revolutionary American society

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The Treaty of Paris included the following terms EXCEPT:

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(B) Britain was allowed to maintain several forts in the area west of the Appalachian Moutains in order to protect its trading posts.

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Which one of the following was a major success of the Articles of Confederation:

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(D) They devised land policies that would allow for the systematic incorporation of new states

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Of the following list of political leaders, which one was strongly opposed to the plan of government created by the delegates at the Philadelphia convention?

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(A) Patrick Henry

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Which of the following was NOT a feature of the articles of confederation?

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(A) they called for a bicameral legislature

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Shay's Rebellion:

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(C) convinced some political leaders of the necessity of giving more power to the central government

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Which important controversy was resolved by the Great Compromise:

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(B) representation in Congress

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Powers granted to the federal government under the U.S. Constitution are expressed as:

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(A) enumerated powers

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All of the following are true regarding the antifederalists EXCEPT:

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(E) they maintained there was no need for a bill of rights

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The "Federalist Papers":

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(E) attempted to calm the anxieties many had about the powers granted to the central government under the consitution

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North Carolina refused to ratify the Constituion:

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(D) unless a bill of rights would eventually be added

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Which part of the government was not as fully developed as the others by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention:

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(A) the judicial branch

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Which one of the following did NOT serve in George Washington's administration?

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(D) John Marshall

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In the Report on Manufactures:

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(E) Hamilton supported policies that would protect American industry from foreign competition

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The first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was:

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(B) John Jay

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The Compromise that led to the Assumption Bill involved:

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(C) relocating the nation's capital to the South

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The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution:

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(E) required that presidential and vice presidential candidates be from the same party

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One of the following represents an improvement in French-American relations:

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(D) the Convention of 1800

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In his more than thirty years as a Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall:

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(D)blocked state regulations that limited property rights

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In which Supreme Court case was the concept of judicial review established?

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(A) Marbury v. Madison

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The concept of judicial review means that:

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(c) the courts have the power to determine the constitutionality of laws

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Pinckney's Treaty resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:

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(C) it gave to the United States Spain's Caribbean Islands in return for American aid

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Which of the following was NOT in favor of U. S. territorial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century:

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(D) abolitionists

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The Term Manifest Destiny implies:

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(C)that it was America's God-given right to expand

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The United State purchased the Louisiana Territory from:

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(E) France

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The Gasden Purchase:

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(E) gave the United States access to the Oregon Territory

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The war hawks:

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(D) supported going to war against Britain in the early nineteenth century

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The Hartford Convention:

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(B) was organized by the Federalist opposition to the war with Britain

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The Battle of New Orleans:

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(C) was fought after the peace treaty ending the War of 1812 was signed

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"Fifty-four forty or fight" refers to:

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(E) the dispute between Britain and the United States over the Oregon Territory

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Which of the following decisions by the Mexican government angered Americans who settled in Texas?

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(E) The Mexicans abolished slavery

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The Supreme Court ruled in Worchester v. Georgia that:

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(D) Georgia's state laws had no authority within Cherokee territory

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The spoils system:

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(D) is a term that is synonymous with rotation in office

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The origins of the Age of Reform can be found in all of the following EXCEPT:

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(A) the defeat of the South and slavery in the Civil War

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The "kitchen cabinet":

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(E) was the nickname of Jackson's unofficial advisors

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Jackson's Maysville Road vetos was an opportunity for him to:

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(A) challenge federal infrastructural development

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The leader of South Carolina's opposition to the "Tariff of Abominations" was:

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(D) John C. Calhoun

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Jackson was embroiled in a controversy with Nicholas Biddle over the:

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(E) Bank of the United States

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The specie circular:

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(D) was an attempt by Jackson to remedy the problems associated with the destruction of the bank

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William Lloyd Garrison is most associated with which of the following reform movements?

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(C) abolition of slavery

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The Seneca Falls Convention is associated with which of the following reform movements?

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(A) women's rights

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Which of the following is FALSE regarding the Second Great Awakening?

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(C) it placed reasons over faith

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Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement regarding the North in the antebellum period?

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(C) the plater class was dominant in most of the states in this region

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The turning point of the American Civil War occurred at the battle of:

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(E) Gettysburg

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Which of the following is consistent with the contract theory?

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(E) the decisions handed down by the Marshall Court

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The Compromise of 1850:

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(E) allowed California to enter as a free state

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Popular sovereignty was the idea that:

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(C) it was for the citizens of a territory to decide if their territory would enter the Union as a slave state or a free state

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In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court:

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(C) ruled that Congress couldn't prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property

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The crittenden proposal:

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(E) would have guaranteed slaveholders the right to own slaves south of the 36/30 line

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In the election of 1860:

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(E) the Republicans gained control of the executive branch for the first time

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The Emancipation Proclamation:

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(A) abolished slavery in all states that were in open rebellion

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Which of the following is NOT associated with the North during the war?

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(E) the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing voting rights to male U.S. citizens

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The original purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to:

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(C) provide freed blacks with food, clothing, and educational opportunities

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Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, developed in 1863, allowed for a state to be readmitted once:

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(E) it abolished slavery

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution:

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(D)denned citizenship rights

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Carpetbaggers were:

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(B) Norhterners such as teachers and ministers who traveled South after the war to aid the freedmen

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Andrew Johnson was impeached because:

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(E) he was an obstacle to the radical Republicans' Reconstruction plan

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In the election of 1876:

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(E) Republicans claimed that blacks had been denied the right to vote in several Southern states

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Which of the following did NOT attempt to disenfranchise black voters?

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(A)Force Act

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Jim Crow Laws:

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(B) were designated to subordinate blacks