FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US

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CHAPTER 15 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: division of the South into five military districts

Answer:

Military Reconstruction Act

Question 2: criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

Answer:

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Question 3: What were the provisions of the Military Reconstruction Act?

Answer:

South was divided into 5 military districts, each state had to pass the 14th amendment, Each state had to write a new constitution granting universal male suffrage regardless of race Question 4: What term refers to the National government's attempt to rebuild the South following the Civil War?

Answer:

Reconstruction

Question 5: first president to be impeached

Answer:

Andrew Johnson

Question 6: Republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the South

Answer:

Radical Republicans Question 7: List at least two positive accomplishments of the Radical governments of the South.Then explain why Southerners nonetheless resented those governments.

Answer:

read page 338

Question 8: lawyer who helped to reform corruption in New York City

Answer:

Samuel J. Tilden

Question 9: conspiracy to cheat the government out of excise taxes

Answer:

Whiskey Ring

Question 10: extremist group that opposed Radical Reconstruction

Answer:

Ku Klux Klan

Question 11: Northern Republicans who opposed the Radicals in 1872

Answer:

Liberal Republicans Question 12: requirement that a majority of voters in each Southern state sign an oath of allegiance

Answer:

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 13: term for political corruption

Answer:

"Grantism"

Question 14: In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate?

Answer:

manipulating the price of gold

Question 15: corrupt leader who defrauded New York City

Answer:

William Tweed Question 16: requirement of Senate consent before a president can dismiss a cabinet member

Answer:

Tenure of Office Act

Question 17: cartoonist who advocated political reform

Answer:

Thomas Nast Question 18: unanimous support of the Democratic party in the former Confederacy

Answer:

Solid South

Question 19: Why was Tammany Hall allowed to continue its corruption?

Answer:

Democratic leaders needed its help for votes

Question 20: method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash

Answer:

sharecropping

Question 21: Lincoln's attempt to reestablish civilian government in the South quickly

Answer:

Ten percent plan

Question 22: agreement to remove federal troops from the South

Answer:

Compromise of 1877

Question 23: Southern Radical

Answer:

scalawag

Question 24: Southerner who wanted to restore white majority rule

Answer:

redeemer

Question 25: Northern Radical who moved South

Answer:

carpetbagger

Question 26: For what reason was Andrew Johnson impeached?

Answer:

He dismissed a Radical Secretary of war

Question 27: guarantee of citizen rights

Answer:

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 28: denial of the right to vote

Answer:

disfranchisement