Platforms, Statutes, and Decisions

Question 1

Johnson’s Ten Percent Plan

Answer 1

Strategy to reunify the US

If 10% of voters swore oath of loyalty to US, they would be admitted back and pardoned

Question 2

Freedmen’s Bureau Act

Answer 2

Helped blacks and former whites after civil war

Gave them better access to schools, hospitals, and banking

Question 3

Black Codes

Answer 3

states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 4

Equal access to public accommodations

Question 5

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Answer 5

Prohibited Chinese immigration in the US for 10 years

Question 6

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

Answer 6

Narrower interpretation of 14th amendment

Struck down key components of Civil Rights act

Question 7

ICC Act of 1887

Answer 7

Designed to regulate railroads

Question 8

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

Answer 8

Prevented businesses from having monopolies

Question 9

Plessy v. Ferguson (1895)

Answer 9

Ruled that state law separating whites and blacks did not violate the 14th Amendment

Question 10

Fourteen Point

Answer 10

Created by President Wilson

His vision to end the war and any future wars

Question 11

New Deal

Answer 11

FDR’s plan to get economy out of major recession

Question 12

Natl. Industrial Recovery Act of 1933

Answer 12

increasing individuals’ purchasing power by establishing minimum wage rates.

Question 13

Schechter decision (1935)

Answer 13

abolished the National Industrial Recovery Act

Question 14

National Labor Relations Act of 1935

Answer 14

grants employees the right to form or join unions; engage in protected, concerted activities to address or improve working conditions; or refrain from engaging in these activities

Question 15

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 15

created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement