A) They were both lifelong Republicans.
B) They held remarkably identical political positions.
C) They agreed on the need for strict terms to readmit southern states into the Union.
D) As a gesture of unity, they combined to create a National Union ticket.
E) Johnson and Lincoln had already served together in the Illinois state government.
G) A) and C)
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A) He did nothing to attempt to stop the Ku Klux Klan because he saw it as the duty of the southern state legislatures and did not want to be seen as interfering, especially with his hopes of being elected to a second presidential term.
B) He had been a slave owner himself previously, and because he was worried he would lose support if anyone found out about this part of his past, he left it to Congress to give a public reaction to events initiated by the Ku Klux Klan.
C) He eradicated the Ku Klux Klan in the South by giving the Klansmen incentives to profit from industries separate from those that had traditionally demanded the use of slave labor, such as cotton and tobacco cultivation.
D) He urged Republicans to pass three Enforcement Acts, which, although intended to protect black rights and punish those who threatened them, were not consistently enforced, allowing the violent efforts of southern whites to end Reconstruction to intensify.
E) He took a middle-of-the-road approach by refusing to renounce the Ku Klux Klan publicly but, at the same time, working closely himself with local law enforcement to successfully squash the Klan's activities and meetings.
G) A) and B)
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A) national unity.
B) upholding southern honor.
C) starting a new civil war.
D) oppressing blacks and white Republicans.
E) raising money for Confederate widows.
G) C) and D)
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A) It ended slavery across the entire United States.
B) It guaranteed women the right to vote nationally.
C) It forbid denying the vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
D) It guaranteed citizenship to freemen as well as immigrant children born in the United States.
E) It established Congress's right to create an income tax.
G) C) and D)
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A) was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
B) was a leading Radical Republican who wanted to replace southern planters with a new generation of small farmers
C) was a leader of the women's rights movement who asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified
D) was a Union general who was appointed to lead the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and helped freed slaves attain labor contracts
E) was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate despite negative reactions from southern whites
F) was a Union general during the Civil War who was from working-class origins and went on to serve as president
G) was a wealthy corporate lawyer who became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 and initially appeared likely to win
H) was a newspaper editor who went on to oppose Grant in the 1872 presidential election and alienated northern voters
I) was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
J) was nearly assassinated the same day as Abraham Lincoln, but his would-be assassin wound up drunk in a hotel bar
L) D) and I)
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A) It was overturned by the Supreme Court and showed Congress's waning support.
B) It showed the decline of Radical power and the growing authority of the executive branch.
C) It required new state constitutions and established military districts in the South.
D) It removed federal troops from the South and gave southerners more say over Reconstruction.
E) It wiped out the black codes and gave African Americans a prominent place in the army.
G) C) and D)
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A) He was a pro-Union southerner who believed in a small federal government and, at least early on in his presidency, in squashing the southern elite in the name of democracy.
B) He genuinely supported racial equality and took Lincoln's lead in actively seeking to make Native American rights a part of his legacy as president as well.
C) He initially sought to advance the interests of southern planters, wishing for them to have unprecedented power in the Union, but eventually changed his mind.
D) He was Lincoln's equal in political skill and consistently refused to pardon Confederates, even if it meant that in doing so he might lose political support.
E) He believed the federal government should be as active as possible, especially in economic policies regarding industrial development.
G) B) and E)
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A) made a drunken appearance in public.
B) spoke in favor of the black codes.
C) released Jefferson Davis from prison.
D) vetoed the Civil Rights Act.
E) addressed the Radicals in profane language.
G) B) and E)
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A) It gave the White House to Tilden, which guaranteed that Democrats would once again have the executive power of the presidency.
B) It ended the North-South division in that it created a labor system through which many southerners would migrate to the North and vice versa.
C) It protected the civil rights of ex-slaves by calling for the thorough enforcement of laws against voter suppression.
D) It brought about the end of Reconstruction through the promise that federal troops would be removed from the Deep South.
E) It increased the role of the federal government in the South by establishing five additional military districts.
G) A) and B)
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