After rejecting Johnson's Reconstruction plan, what was the basis of Congress's program?
a. the social and moral regeneration of the South
b. the confiscation and redistribution of land
c. immediate enfranchisement of both the freedmen and ex-Confederates
d. guarantees for the rights of all citizens with the Fourteenth Amendment
e. granting pardons to members of the planter class who asked for them
D
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A) ?2008. B) ?2009. C) ?2010. D) ?2011. E) ?2012.
The winner of the presidential election of 1800 was
a. James Madison. b. John Adams. c. Thomas Jefferson. d. James Monroe. e. Aaron Burr.
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
a. of the sacrifices of Union soldiers and the "treason" of southern Democrats. b. that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president. c. of the corrupt radical Reconstruction regimes in the South. d. that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction. e. of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.
In the elections held in the Palestinian territories in 2006, the people there
A) elected the secular Fatah movement into power on a platform of settlement with Israel through negotiation and coexistence. B) elected the Islamist Hamas party into power on a platform that called for the destruction of Israel and the formation of an Islamist Palestinian state. C) elected both Fatah and Hamas candidates with no clear majority. D) elected neither Fatah or Hamas, as they voted in an absolute monarchy. E) did not hold an election.