According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?
A. the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations
B. whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group
C. rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society
D. which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy
Answer: A
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A) Paris B) Cambridge C) Bologna D) Salerno
As a result of his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln
A. was appointed to an open House seat by the Republican governor of Illinois. B. was appointed to the leadership of the Republican Party. C. won election to the United States Senate. D. came to be regarded by southerners as an antislavery fanatic. E. gained many new supporters outside of Illinois.
The rapid rise of the Republican Party in the North can be partly attributed to the party's
a. moral stance in demanding complete abolition of the institution of slavery. b. active support of issues at the local level geared to attract immigrant and Catholic votes. c. adept organizing and campaigning skills at the grass-roots level. d. consistently laissez-faire economic platform. e. endorsement of slavery throughout the United States
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a. the abandonment of individual freedom. b. rejection of Western civilization by intellectuals. c. theories supporting the equality of all groups in a fascist state. d. a stress on action. e. exaltation of the leader.