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DSST Civil War and Reconstruction - Question List

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16. The ratification or issuance of which of the following texts is considered the legal beginning of the Reconstruction Era?
  1. Emancipation Proclamation
  2. Jim Crow laws
  3. Reconstruction Acts
  4. Gettysburg Address
  5. 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
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17. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 actually forwarded the abolitionist's cause-in spite of the fact that it required slaves to be returned to the South-because:
  1. The language was so unclear that it was unenforceable.
  2. It generated so much negative publicity when enforced.
  3. People had not realized that fugitive slaves had to be returned.
  4. Fugitive slaves marched in protest against it, attracting attention.
  5. California became a free state at the same time, overshadowing the South's benefits.
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18. The local and state laws enacted in the South during late Reconstruction that instituted de jure racial segregation were called:
  1. Anti-miscegenation laws
  2. Jim Crow laws
  3. Black Codes
  4. Reconstruction Acts
  5. Apartheid
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19. Which of the following acts forwarded by the Radical Republicans ensured that economic recovery would be virtually impossible for the South after the Civil War?
  1. Not letting former Confederates hold office
  2. The refusal to validate Confederate currency
  3. Putting the South under martial law
  4. Military occupation of the South
  5. Arresting members of the Ku Klux Klan
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20. The expansion of the railroads created which of the following shifts in the Northern economy?
  1. The Northern economy overtook the Southern by 1850.
  2. The canal systems became obsolete, creating debt.
  3. The North went from trading with the South to trading with the West.
  4. Skilled labor began moving west, creating vast shortages.
  5. Banks began to be owned exclusively by railroad companies.
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