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Question 27 (1 point)In what year did slavery officially end in the Western Hemisphere?Question 27

options:

	1863
	1865
	1874
	1880
	1888

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Question 28 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT true of Abraham Lincoln’s slavery policy during the first two years of the war?

Question 28 options:

	He initially insisted that slavery was irrelevant to the Civil War.
	He supported the colonization of freed slaves on an island near Haiti.
	He rescinded an emancipation order by a Union general in Missouri.
	He proposed gradual, compensated emancipation in the border states.
	He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.

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Question 29 (1 point)

Who lobbied for the United States to endorse the First Geneva Convention of 1864?

Question 29 options:

	Clara Barton
	Elizabeth Van Lew
	Zebulon Vance
	Bret Harte
	Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Question 30 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT true of the New York City riots of 1863?

Question 30 options:

	They were mostly the doing of Irish immigrants.
	The introduction of the draft sparked them.
	Union troops ultimately ended them.
	Rioters targeted the wealthy and African-Americans.
	They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Question 31 (1 point)

“King Cotton diplomacy” led Great Britain to:

Question 31 options:

	find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
	recognize the independence of the Confederate States of America.
	repudiate the Emancipation Proclamation.
	use its warships to break the Union blockade.
	stage multiple raids from Canada into the Upper Northwest.

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Question 32 (1 point)

The “Sea Island Experiment” refers to:

Question 32 options:

	northern reformers’ efforts to assist former slaves with the transition to freedom.
	the Confederacy’s trial use of slaves as soldiers along the South Carolina coast.
	a U.S. government plan to introduce advanced technology to southern farming in order to decrease the need for slaves.
	the unsuccessful effort of General Ulysses Grant to allow former slaves to run their own farms in Mississippi.
	the code name for the Confederate navy’s submarine-building program.

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Question 33 (1 point)

The Thirteenth Amendment:

Question 33 options:

	abolished slavery throughout the United States.
	was strongly supported by Democrats in 1864.
	set up a gradual plan of emancipation.
	defined U.S. citizenship to include African-Americans.
	specifically gave black men the right to vote.

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Question 34 (1 point)

Lincoln’s second inaugural address:

Question 34 options:

	blamed the South for the war.
	described the Civil War as divine punishment.
	blamed the North for the war.
	proved to be his final speech.
	called for black suffrage.

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Question 35 (1 point)

After the Civil War, ex-slaves were labeled as “drifters.” What was the reality for these ex-slaves?

Question 35 options:

	Many took up crime because of a lack of jobs.
	Some of the drifters organized into terrorists, seeking revenge against their former slaveowners.
	Free blacks used this word to describe the recently freed slaves.
	Large revivals of African-Americans, who had recently converted to Christianity, took place in the countryside.
	Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold.

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Question 36 (1 point)

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

Question 36 options:

	Men and women maintained equality within the household, making black families far more matrilineal than white families.
	Men often remained at home while women went out and labored—a major shift from their roles while in slavery.
	Black women adopted the domestic roles that white women had long had, but retained their duties in the fields and in the workplace.
	The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.
	Emancipation did not lead to any changes in the black family’s structure.

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Question 37 (1 point)

During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:

Question 37 options:

	declined because ex-slaves realized they owed their freedom to fellow human beings, not to God.
	changed as African-Americans joined white churches rather than worshipping separately.
	declined as other black-run institutions became more central in African-American life.
	was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.
	became less important, as northern white churches moved into the South and took in most blacks.

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Question 38 (1 point)

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant:

Question 38 options:

	railroading building.
	jobs.
	land ownership.
	voting.
	jury duty.

 

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