Chapter 10 Section 3

Question 1

President Ulysses S. Grants lack of experience helped to divide the Republican Party and to undermine public support for what?

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

During Grant’s first term in office, the Republican-controlled congress continued to enforce what?

Answer 2

Reconstruction

Question 3

Reconstruction expanded the programs it had introduced during the civil war to promote what?

Answer 3

Commerce and Industry

Question 4

Reconstruction kept the sin taxes in place in order to help pay off what??

Answer 4

Bonds

Question 5

Democrats and Republicans were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate which party?

Answer 5

Republican

Question 6

Liberal Republicans left the Republican Party and nominated who?

Answer 6

Horace Greeley

Question 7

The Democratic Party also nominated Greeley in an effort to defeat who?

Answer 7

Grant

Question 8

Who won? Greeley or Grant?

Answer 8

Grant

Question 9

a series of scandals and economic depression hurt what of Grants?

Answer 9

reputation of his administration

Question 10

Grant’s secretary of war accepted what? and then resigned before he could be impeached?

Answer 10

Bribes

Question 11

In 1875 what scandal broke out?

Answer 11

Whiskey Ring

Question 12

A wave known as the what spread through the financial community?

Answer 12

Panic of 1873

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Democratic

Question 14

By 1876, Democrats had taken control of all Southern state legislatures except…

Answer 14

Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida

Question 15

Republicans then nominated who for the 1877 presidential election?

Answer 15

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 16

The Democrats nominated who for the 1877 election?

Answer 16

Samuel Tilden

Question 17

What had caused the winner of the election to be unknown?

Answer 17

Voter fraud, election fraud

Question 18

To resolve the 1877 election situation, Congress appointed a committee that consissted of how many people?

Answer 18

15

Question 19

Who won the 1877 election?

Answer 19

Hayes

Question 20

The outcome of the 1877 election became known as what?

Answer 20

The Compromise of 1877

Question 21

In April 1877 Hayes pulled federal troops out of the

Answer 21

South

Question 22

After troops were pulled what was over.

Answer 22

Reconstruction

Question 23

Many Southern leaders realized the need for a what.

Answer 23

New South

Question 24

Despite it’s industrial growth in the south, the region remained..

Answer 24

agrarian

Question 25

The collapse of what ended African American’s hopes of being granted their own land in the South

Answer 25

Reconstruction

Question 26

Many African Americans became what?

Answer 26

Tenant Farmers or Sharecroppers

Question 27

Many sharecroppers were in debt and had to deal with

Answer 27

crop liens

Question 28

Eventually when sharecroppers got into too much debt they would enter a financial condition called

Answer 28

debt peonage

Question 29

Although many African Americans were free, they were still trapped working on what?

Answer 29

plantations

Question 30

paid rent for the land they farmed

Answer 30

tenant farmers

Question 31

influential newspaper publisher

Answer 31

Horace Greeley

Question 32

paid a share of their crops for the land they farmed

Answer 32

sharecroppers

Question 33

to save

Answer 33

redeem

Question 34

merchants could take a farmer’s crops to cover debts

Answer 34

crop liens

Question 35

The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is known as..

Answer 35

The Compromise of 1877

Question 36

Taxes the Republican Congress placed on alcohol and tobacco were nicknamed

Answer 36

sin taxes

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Panic of 1873

Question 38

Republicans who were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate the party were called

Answer 38

Liberal Republicans

Question 39

To get the seed and supplies they needed, sharecroppers often relied on credit from

Answer 39

Crop liens