Chapter 17 Reconstruction

Question 1

What were the slaughter house cases?

Answer 1

A New Orleans butchery is given a monopoly. Opponents used the 14th amendment to argue.

Question 2

What are the two suffrage associations?

Answer 2

National Women’s Suffrage Association and American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 3

The Reconstruction era failed to what?

Answer 3

provide former slaves full and complete freedom.

Question 4

When Andrew Johnson became president, he was in disagreement with whom?

Answer 4

the Radical Republicans

Question 5

The Southern laws designed to keep former slaves in a virtual state of servitude were known as?

Answer 5

black codes

Question 6

A critical element in the Republican presidential victory in the election of 1868 was what?

Answer 6

the overwhelming support that former slaves gave to the party in the South.

Question 7

The Fourteenth Amendment did what?(4)

Answer 7

confer american citizenship on all those born or naturalized in the US
repudiate the Confederate debt
deny former Confederates the right to hold state or national office
reduce state representation in Congress for those states disfranchising male citizens.

Question 8

By the end of Reconstruction the Democratic Party had what?

Answer 8

regained political control over all the former Confederate states.

Question 9

The “crop lien” system did what?

Answer 9

compelled most southerners to plant cotton, which undermined the economic vitality of the region.

Question 10

The Depression of 1873 resulted from what?

Answer 10

commercial over expansion and speculative investment in railroads.

Question 11

In the 1870’s, the Republican Party suffered because why?

Answer 11

economic problems and scandals within the party

Question 12

The Compromise of 1877 rejected what?

Answer 12

the concept that the federal government would protect the rights of all Americans.

Question 13

What was the intentions of the Tenure of Office act?(3)

Answer 13

to restrict the power of the president to dismiss Cabinet members
to catch Johnson on something in order to impeach him
to protect Stanton from dismissal

Question 14

What did the force acts do?

Answer 14

allow the federal government the use of the military against the KKK.

Question 15

Who was Hiram Revels?

Answer 15

the first person of color to serve in the United States Senate, and in the U.S. Congress overall

Question 16

Who were Scalawags?

Answer 16

southern whites who supportedReconstructionand theRepublican Party

Question 17

Who were Exodusters?

Answer 17

a name given toAfrican Americanswhomigratedfromstatesalong theMississippi RivertoKansasin the late nineteenth century