Quiz on Unit 15

Question 1

Democrats regained power in the South in part because whites all across America ___.

Answer 1

wanted to whites to have power over blacks

Question 2

The transcontinental railroad was built between

Answer 2

Omaha, Nebraska, and Sacramento

Question 3

The 1876 presidential election was decided by:

Answer 3

a special fifteen-member commission

Question 4

The huge western migration of Americans and immigrants created ___ with Native American tribes living in the region.

Answer 4

conflict

Question 5

Democrats accepted ___ as the winner of the 1876 election in return for his agreeing to remove the remaining Union troops from the South and agreeing to appoint a southerner as postmaster general

Answer 5

Hayes

Question 6

Horace Greeley was the nominee of the ___ in the 1872 presidential election

Answer 6

Liberal Republicans

Question 7

American cities ___ after the Civil War as a new wave of immigrants came to the country.

Answer 7

increased in population

Question 8

The discovery of ___, ___, and ___ mines in the West encouraged people to move there.

Answer 8

gold, silver, copper

Question 9

Grant was president during a period of ___ in American government and business

Answer 9

terrible corruption

Question 10

The 1876 presidential contest was between ___ and ___.

Answer 10

Rutherford B. Hays and Samuel J. Tilden.