Reconstruction is best understood as a
A. time defined by the failure to send blacks to Liberia.
B. time of presidential dominance that ended in corruption and disillusionment.
C. radical, vengeful program, imposing northern values on southerners.
D. program of political and economic adjustment that failed because of racism.
Answer: D
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A) through the assassination of Louis Napoleon. B) when the army overthrew the Republic in a coup. C) when the National Assembly voluntarily disbanded. D) through a bloody revolution in Paris. E) when French voters overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of the empire.
Between 1870 and World War I how many Europeans emigrated to the U.S.?
a. 10 million b. 25 million c. 50 million d. 100 million e. 2 million
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a. passage of an $800 billion stimulus package b. passage of significant financial regulation c. passage of the Equal Rights Amendment d. passage of a health-care reform bill
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a. Slidell was an incompetent diplomat who botched the negotiations b. Slidell contracted dysentery and was too sick to negotiate c. Slidell was not authorized to offer any money to Mexico d. the new Mexican government preferred going to war over negotiating with the United States