Here are the inferred responses based on the questions and context provided:
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What can be inferred by the passage of the Black Codes?
- Answer: Many white Southerners wanted African Americans to remain as servants.
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Which three of the following groups supported Radical Reconstruction? Choose the three that apply
- Answer:
- Newly freed African Americans
- Scallywags
- Businesspeople interested in rebuilding
- Answer:
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After the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, why did African Americans continue to experience political oppression?
- Answer: Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
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Which of the following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln's policy of leniency toward the defeated South?
- Answer: President Lincoln's decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union.
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Arrange the following legislation that was passed after the Civil War in the proper chronological order
- Answer:
- Wade-Davis Bill
- Reconstruction Act
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Compromise of 1877
- Answer:
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Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?
- Answer: President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.
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According to the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, why was segregation acceptable?
- Answer: Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
These answers are based on historical context surrounding the Reconstruction era in the United States.