SS reconstruction quiz

Question 1

When was Reconstruction (the years)?

Answer 1

1863 - 1877

Question 2

Andrew Johnson: compare/contrast him to Lincoln. Why did Lincoln choose him as his running mate in 1864?

Answer 2

He wished to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign. Johnson was very racist, Both of them were unionist

Question 3

What’s the difference between Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867?) and Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877?)

Answer 3

Presidential Reconstruction was the approach that promoted more leniency towards the South regarding plans for readmission to the Union. Congressional Reconstruction blamed the South and wanted retribution for causing the Civil War.

Question 4

where was grant from

Answer 4

He was originally from Ohio and lived in Illinois prior to the Civil War

Question 5

what did grant run for

Answer 5

He ran president

Question 6

True or false; Grant was general

Answer 6

He was the head general for a time during the Civil War

Question 7

grant:

Answer 7

He had a reputation for both smoking and drinking

Question 8

President ranking list-

Answer 8

In terms of President ranking lists, Grant was at the bottom when the rankings first started, but is now ranked in the middle or the top half of presidents

Question 9

who did grant try to crush

Answer 9

He did a lot to crush the KKK as president

Question 10

who voted for grant

Answer 10

As a group, African Americans voted for him in the highest percentages (compared to any other demographic group)

Question 11

Electoral vote: Grant got (FILL IN BLANK) electoral votes Greeley got (FILL IN BLANK) electoral votes

Answer 11

grant - 286, Greeley- 66

Question 12

Popular vote: Grant (FILL IN BLANK) Greeley (FILL IN BLANK)

Answer 12

Grant 56%, Greeley 44%

Question 13

Slogan

Answer 13

let us have peace

Question 14

What was controversial about Alexander Stephens? Who was he and what happened to him after the Civil War?

Answer 14

He then famously gave the “Cornerstone Speech,” in which he announced that the new government was founded on the idea that blacks were inferior to whites. Outwardly critical of President Jefferson Davis throughout his tenure in the Confederate high command, Stephens was arrested and imprisoned after the war’s end.
He was the vice president of the CSA, but he still became a congressman in the USA after the war.

Question 15

Freedmen’s Bureau;

Answer 15

an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South. 1865 - 1872

Question 16

black codes

Answer 16

Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of african americans

Question 17

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 17

A hate group against African Americans that did many things to threaten blacks such as burning crosses, and sometimes even commiting murder. Other targets included, Jewish people, those who have immigrated to the United States, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Question 18

13th Amendment

Answer 18

abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories

Question 19

14th Amendment;

Answer 19

Granted citizenship to all people who were born in the U.S. - including former enslaved people- Guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws”

Question 20

15th Amendment;

Answer 20

Granted african american men the right to vote

Question 21

Unalienable Rights;

Answer 21

God given rights, the gov can’t take them away without due process.

Question 22

Radical Republicans;

Answer 22

More extreme than normal Republicans

Question 23

scalawags

Answer 23

term for white southerners who supported the federal plan from northern reconstruction for their own gain

Question 24

carpetbaggers and the destruction of Southern forests;

Answer 24

Northerners who took advantage of the resources in the south to get rich (like the trees from the forests)

Question 25

Transcontinental Railroad;

Answer 25

a train route across the United States that was finished in 1869, promontory summit, utah

Question 26

Government subsidies;

Answer 26

When the government gives people money to do something.

Question 27

Northwest Passage;

Answer 27

A passage from Europe to Asia. The transcontinental railroad made it faster to get there (it was an easier route).

Question 28

Who was Hiram Revels?

Answer 28

He was the 1st African American senator

Question 29

What is impeachment?

Answer 29

If a president is impeached they are charged with something. If convicted by ⅔ vote of the congress, the president is removed from office.

Question 30

How many presidents have been impeached?

Answer 30

Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump(twice) (3 presidents)

Question 31

How many have been removed by the Senate following impeachment?

Answer 31

0

Question 32

Why would the government subsidies cause bad incentives for railroad companies? And even contribute to the depression of 1873?

Answer 32

The railroad workers were spending too much money which led to the depression of 1873. Many railroad workers died from, train robbers, avalanches, dieases

Question 33

TCR cut coast to coast travel from (FILL IN BLANK) months to (FILL IN BLANK) days!!!

Answer 33

6, 10

Question 34

Why did reconstruction end in 1877?

Answer 34

Things like schools and road repair cost money, which meant taxes, which made republican governments (made republicans very unpopular. White southerners could not accept african americans exercising basic civil rights, holding office for voting

Question 35

What was the Bargain of 1877?

Answer 35

The bargain of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.

Question 36

Which election did it settle? (the bargain of 1877)

Answer 36

1876 U.S. Presidential election

Question 37

What did the Republicans get in the bargain of 1877?

Answer 37

They Got hays (the us president)

Question 38

What did the Democrats get in the bargain?

Answer 38

They got the federal troops out of the southern states, and another transcontinental railroad through Texas

Question 39

Even though slavery ended a lot of the same people continued to own the Southern farmland, and slavery was replaced by Sharecropping.
How was sharecropping different from slavery?

Answer 39

Landowners would provide housing to the sharecroppers, and the sharecroppers would get a portion of their crops (but former slaves still did work)
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Question 40

Thaddeus Stephens was a leader of a group in Congress called the

Answer 40

Radical Republicans.

Question 41

Redeemer governments in the South ……………

Answer 41

Redeemer governments in the South claimed that they were saving the southern states from “Northern Republican corruption” and “Black rule”.

Question 42

How was Reconstruction a success?

Answer 42

Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.

Question 43

How was it a failure?

Answer 43

The failure to stop violence and protect the political gains of Reconstruction was a policy failure: the U.S. government failed to coordinate and plan to suppress an advancing revolt; failed to deploy enough troops or use the troops with consistency; failed to consider other options to secure the rights of Black Americans; and otherwise failed in its counterinsurgency and counterterrorism policies.