Dates and acts 1865 - 1890

Question 1

What year was the Emancipation Proclamation and who put it in place?

Answer 1

1862 and Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 2

Any southern states conquered by the Union had to abolish slavery

Question 3

How many slaves were in the South by 1860?

Answer 3

4 million

Question 4

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 4

It abolished slavery everywhere in America after the civil war

Question 5

when was the civil war?

Answer 5

1865

Question 6

When was the Freedmen’s bureau and what was it for?

Answer 6

1866

it was enforced (but vetoed by Johnson) to provide aid to freed slaves

Question 7

What was the 15th amendment?

Answer 7

said that the right to votes couldn’t be denied according to race, colour or previous servitude

Question 8

When was the civil rights act?

Answer 8

1875

Question 9

What did the civil rights act do?

Answer 9

intended to guarantee equal treatment of issues such as jury duty and public transport

Question 10

What was the case called where the courts ruled black and white people should be separate but equal?

Answer 10

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

Question 11

when was the 13th amendment?

Answer 11

1865

Question 12

When was the 15th amendment?

Answer 12

1870

Question 13

when was the enforcement act?

Answer 13

1870-71

Question 14

what was the enforcement act?

Answer 14

it became a federal criminal offence to restrict the civil and political rights of others (right to trial suspended)

Question 15

when and why did reconstruction end?

Answer 15

1877

Hayes removed the military from the south and ended federal protection over freed slaves

Question 16

When was the southern compromise?

Answer 16

1877

Question 17

What was the southern compromise?

Answer 17

Where Hayes pulls the military away from the south and stops the conflict from the civil war

Question 18

What was the 1867 Belknap scandal?

Answer 18

Where Grants secretary of war had to resign for taking backhanders and granting rights to sell supplies to Indians

Question 19

What was the whiskey ring?

Answer 19

Grants private secretary helped defraud the government of million in the taxing of whiskey

Question 20

What was the 1869 gold scandal?

Answer 20

2 friends of the president cornered the gold market by spreading rumours which allowed then to buy all the gold and then sell it at a huge profit

Question 21

what was the 1873 salary grab?

Answer 21

The Congress voted to massively increase salaries across the federal government

Question 22

What was the cause of the 1873 Colfax massacre?

Answer 22

150 black people were killed to try and prevent black people from voting (as they voted Republican)

Question 23

when was the economic depression and what was it caused by?

Answer 23

1873

the fall out of the stock market

Question 24

what was the 1872 amnesty act?

Answer 24

allowed some ex-confederate to return to politics after being disqualified by previous laws such as the 14th amendment

Question 25

When was Hayes president?

Answer 25

1877-81

Question 26

When was Garfield president?

Answer 26

1881

Question 27

When was Arthur president?

Answer 27

1881-84

Question 28

When was Cleveland president?

Answer 28

1884-88

Question 29

When was the Pendleton service act?

Answer 29

1883

Question 30

when was the Chinese exclusion act?

Answer 30

1882

Question 31

when was the Granger movement and what was it?

Answer 31

1867

It united farmers against the hostilities of railroad companies

Question 32

when was the dawes act

Answer 32

1887

Question 33

what did the dawes act do

Answer 33

split up reservations and gave areas to native families to farm on

Question 34

when was the sherman silver purchase act

Answer 34

1890

Question 35

what was the sherman silver purchase act

Answer 35

gov buy 4.5 million ounces of silver each month at market price to use as coinage