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Black sharecropping

A) represented a continuation of the pre-Civil War gang-labor system.
B) differed sharply from the tenant system.
C) usually led to economic independence.
D) was a very common occupation of former slaves.
E) involved close white supervision, which recalled the days of slavery.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.

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B) False

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The Fourteenth Amendment offered the first constitutional definition of ________.

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm, ________.

As president, Rutherford B. Hayes

In the South as a whole, the percentage of black officeholders during Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the population.

During Reconstruction, black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles within white families.

During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders

During Reconstruction, though the black share of profits were rising, the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.

After the Civil War, most black agricultural workers toiled as tenants of white landowners and were known as ________.

Compare the conditions of black Americans living in the South in the 1850s with the those of the 1870s.

Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white Southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many Northerners claimed.

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office?

Without the support of black voters in 1868, Ulysses S. Grant would have had only a minority of the popular vote.

President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.

After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by leaving plantations in massive numbers.

By the 1890s, voting percentages in the South had

Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.

The Supreme Court struck down restrictive voting laws, such as literacy tests, and upheld black voting rights in the late nineteenth century.

Even after the military fall of the South, Lincoln continued to insist that the Confederate government had no legal right to exist.