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CLARK - TERM EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: "Seward's Folly"

Answer:

the purchase of Alaska

Question 2: Panic of 1873

Answer:

this panic w as touched off by the failure of the Jay Cooke company. A stock market crash soon followed and caused great unimployment and bussiness failures. Sharpley decreased profit margins

Question 3: Civil Rights Act 1875

Answer:

Outlawed racial discrimination in transportation, public accommodations, and juries. Federal authorities had little time to enforce this law, leaving segregated facilities untouched throughout the South.

Question 4: Tenants and sharecroppers

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Question 5: Thaddeus Stevens

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Reconstruction era congressional leader of the Radical Republicans who sought equality for southern blacks

Question 6: Credit Mobilier

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a corporation to finance and construct the Union Pacific. Formed by large stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad

Question 7: "40 acres and a mule"

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is a term for compensation that was to be awarded to freed African American slaves after the Civil War- 40 acres (16 ha) of land to farm, and a mule with which to drag a plow so the land could be cultivated.

Question 8: John Wilkes Booth

Answer:

Lincoln's Assasinator

Question 9: Presidential Reconstruction

Answer:

headed by Lincoln and Johnson

Question 10: Freedmen's Bureau

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est. by Congress 1865; distributed food to ex-slaves, established schools run by missionaries/teachers from N aid societies & church groups; made efforts to settle blacks on their own land; only had authority to operate 1yr, too small to deal w/ problems

Question 11: Thirteenth Amendment

Answer:

abolition of slavery

Question 12: Fifteenth Amendments

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It guaranteed that no one could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color or having been a slave. It was to prevent states from amending their constitutions to deny black suffrage.

Question 13: Working Women's Association

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Question 14: Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction- offered a general pardon to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the US and accepted the Union's proclamation concerning slavery

Question 15: Ex Parte Milligan

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1866, Supreme Court declared it was illegal to have military tribunals in places where civil courts were functioning; eventually court denied jurisdiction in Reconstruction cases to preserve its rights, due to Congressional proposals in response to this

Question 16: Carpetbaggers

Answer:

Northerners who came to the South to become political leaders

Question 17: "Whiskey Ring"

Answer:

was a group of distillers who bribed federal agents to avoid paying the treasury millions in exise tax.Grant insisted that no one escape punishment, until his private secreatry, Orville Babcock, was found guilty of taking bribes from the distillers.

Question 18: "Redeemers"

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Wanted to reduce the size of state government and limit the rights of african americans.

Question 19: Black Codes

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passed by Southern legislatures to regulate the lives of freed slaves. These black codes restricted blacks from voting, to serve on juries, to assemble unless white Southners were present, to be on the streets past sunset, to travel without permits.

Question 20: Booker T. Washington

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former slave, 1881, established industrial, agricultural schools for blacks

Question 21: Tuskeggee Institute

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a trade school for African Americans.

Question 22: Liberal Republicans

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reform minded, nominated Horace Greeley in 72 - they were reformers under Carl Schurz, a German political refugee, that had split from the Republican party because they wanted an honest canidate for president.

Question 23: Joel Chandler Harris

Answer:

Humorist and journalist noted for adaptations of black folk legends and characters such as Brer Rabbit.

Question 24: Henry Grady

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editor of the _Atlanta Constitution_; supported a viorous industrial economy for the S; promoted virtues of thrift, industry, and progress

Question 25: Charles Sumner

Answer:

1856, Charles Sumner denounced the south for crimes against Kansas and singled out Senator Andrew Brooks of South Carolina for extra abuse. Brooks beat Sumner over the head with his cane, severely crippling him. Sumner was the first Republican martyr.