Chapter 10 Section 3 Flashcards
President Ulysses S. Grants lack of experience helped to divide the Republican Party and to undermine public support for what?
Reconstruction
During Grant’s first term in office, the Republican-controlled congress continued to enforce what?
Reconstruction
Reconstruction expanded the programs it had introduced during the civil war to promote what?
Commerce and Industry
Reconstruction kept the sin taxes in place in order to help pay off what??
Bonds
Democrats and Republicans were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate which party?
Republican
Liberal Republicans left the Republican Party and nominated who?
Horace Greeley
The Democratic Party also nominated Greeley in an effort to defeat who?
Grant
Who won? Greeley or Grant?
Grant
a series of scandals and economic depression hurt what of Grants?
reputation of his administration
Grant’s secretary of war accepted what? and then resigned before he could be impeached?
Bribes
In 1875 what scandal broke out?
Whiskey Ring
A wave known as the what spread through the financial community?
Panic of 1873
By appealing to white racism and defining elections as a struggle between whites and African Americans what political group was able to win back the support of white owners of small farms?
Democratic
By 1876, Democrats had taken control of all Southern state legislatures except…
Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida
Republicans then nominated who for the 1877 presidential election?
Rutherford B. Hayes
The Democrats nominated who for the 1877 election?
Samuel Tilden
What had caused the winner of the election to be unknown?
Voter fraud, election fraud
To resolve the 1877 election situation, Congress appointed a committee that consissted of how many people?
15
Who won the 1877 election?
Hayes
The outcome of the 1877 election became known as what?
The Compromise of 1877
In April 1877 Hayes pulled federal troops out of the
South
After troops were pulled what was over.
Reconstruction
Many Southern leaders realized the need for a what.
New South
Despite it’s industrial growth in the south, the region remained..
agrarian
The collapse of what ended African American’s hopes of being granted their own land in the South
Reconstruction
Many African Americans became what?
Tenant Farmers or Sharecroppers
Many sharecroppers were in debt and had to deal with
crop liens
Eventually when sharecroppers got into too much debt they would enter a financial condition called
debt peonage
Although many African Americans were free, they were still trapped working on what?
plantations
paid rent for the land they farmed
tenant farmers
influential newspaper publisher
Horace Greeley
paid a share of their crops for the land they farmed
sharecroppers
to save
redeem
merchants could take a farmer’s crops to cover debts
crop liens
The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is known as..
The Compromise of 1877
Taxes the Republican Congress placed on alcohol and tobacco were nicknamed
sin taxes
When the powerful banking company of Jay Cooke and Company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the nations financial community felt a wave of feat known as
Panic of 1873
Republicans who were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate the party were called
Liberal Republicans
To get the seed and supplies they needed, sharecroppers often relied on credit from
Crop liens
