During Radical Reconstruction in the South

question 136

Multiple Choice

During Radical Reconstruction in the South,

• A) the first interracial governments in U.S. history accomplished a great deal, despite violent opposition.
• B) about 2,000 African-Americans held political office, but only in local governments.
• C) white voters provided the majority of the Republican Party's support.
• D) Republicans included "carpetbaggers," who were white Republicans born in the South.
• E) Republicans included "scalawags," who were white northerners who moved to the South.

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Definitions:

Z Statistic

A type of standard score that indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its population.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped frequency distribution curve that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

One-tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the alternative hypothesis specifies a direction of the effect.

One-tailed Hypothesis Test

A statistical test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, used when a specific direction for the data is predicted.