What pushed Congress to create the Military Reconstruction Act?
a. Johnson's continued insistence on the 10 percent plan
b. The fear that the Fourteenth Amendment might be defeated
c. The inability of the former Confederate states to form new governments
d. Johnson's veto of the bill to reauthorize the Freedman's Bureau
ANSWER: b
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A) be controlled exclusively by Congress. B) harshly punish the white South for its treason. C) abolish slavery and divide the plantation lands among the former slaves. D) avoid vindictiveness toward the South.
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A) civil war in China B) succession crisis in China C) succession crisis in the Seljuk realm D) assassination of the Mongol leader
Which of the following became a crucial component in the trading rituals between Europeans and Indians?
a. gold b. guns c. rum d. tobacco