Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871
A. was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.
B. was designed to support the Black Codes.
C. was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant.
D. gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan.
E. allowed white southerners to maintain a police state.
Answer: A
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WHS AP US History Chapter 15
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- In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
- In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington
- During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture
- Advocates of the "New South"
- Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if
- The elections of 1876 saw
- The Alabama claims
- The Panic of 1873
- In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
- In the South, the crop-lien system
- During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked
- Black sharecropping
- During Reconstruction, the Southern school system
- During Reconstruction, Southern African-American officeholders
- During Reconstruction, the term "Scalawags" referred to
- In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
- The Tenure of Office Act
- In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
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- The Freedmen's Bureau
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