What percentage of southerners were tenants or sharecropper farmers in 1880?
A) 33 B) 25 C) 75 D) 50
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Andrew Johnson’s plan for national reconstruction
A) proved to be very lenient toward the South. B) pleased the Republican leadership in Congress. C) called for harsh treatment of the South. D) defended the interest of the planter class.
What was the strategic value of trying to obtain the Oregon Country for the United States, according to John Quincy Adams and others in government who were in favor of acquiring it?
A) It provided a Pacific Northwest base to expand into Alaska should Russia decide to cede the territory to the United States. B) It would be a useful political leverage in concluding upcoming negotiations with Russia over the border of Alaska with the United States. C) The United States would be able to overwhelm the restive native peoples of the region if it had full political control of Oregon. D) An American presence at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon would be beneficial not only for access in the fur trade but as a way to enter Pacific trade with Asia.
The seventeenth-century Pueblo Indians __________.
A. rejected Spanish attempts to convert them B. made Christianity one more part of their already complex culture C. rejected their old gods and accepted Christianity as their new religion D. begged the Spaniards to teach them the tenets of Catholicism
Which of the following was NOT a part of the compromise proposed by John J. Crittenden to avert war between the North and South?
A. Restore the Missouri Compromise line. B. Prohibit the abolition of slaveholding on federal property in the South. C. Establish compensation for owners of runaway slaves. D. Repeal "personal liberty" laws in the North. E. Ban the slave trade in America.