Test 3 (Reconstruction)

Question 1

13 Ammendment

Answer 1

abolished slavery

Question 2

Who told Texan slaves that they were free?

Answer 2

Gen. Granger

Question 3

Desired a drastic change in S. Govnt

Answer 3

Thaddeus Stevens (Radical Rep.)

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 4

Declared anyone born in US a citizen
Guaranteed rights to any US citizen (not voting)
(vetoed and overrode)

Question 5

14th Ammendment

Answer 5

required states to give equal citizenship to all citizens

“equal protection of the law”

Question 6

Elections of 1866

Answer 6

Republics take full control of congress

Question 7

Reconstruction Acts

Answer 7

1. Divided former confederacy into five military districts and put Union troops there to keep order
2. States required to ratify 14th amendment to be a part of the Union

Question 8

Tenure of Office Act

Answer 8

Pres. must check with Senate before removing officials

Question 9

Johnson broke the ___ Act when he tried to ___ ___ and was one vote short of being impeached

Answer 9

Tenure of Office Act

Sec. of War Edwin Stanton

Question 10

Grant vs. ___

Answer 10

Horatio

Question 11

15th Ammendment

Answer 11

all citizens vote

Question 12

What black man replaced Jefferson Davis?

Answer 12

Hiram Revels

Question 13

Who led the KKK?

Answer 13

Nathan Bedford Forrest “Grand Wizard”

Question 14

Why did the KKK form and what was their goal?

Answer 14

As a response to N. imposition of reconstruction

Wanted to destroy Rep. party in S.

Question 15

Panic of 1873

Answer 15

Economic depression that turned voters against republicans

Question 16

Reedemers

Answer 16

S. Dems. use terrorism to subdue blacks and republic voters

Question 17

Election of 1876

Answer 17

D: Samuel J Tiden vs R: Rutherford B Hayes
Tiden-wins pop. vote
Hayes- wins electoral vote

Question 18

Compromise of 1877

Answer 18

1. Dem accept Hayes as pres. BUT
2. Rep agree to w/draw troops from S—reconstruction govnt falls
3. States rewrite state constitution—overturn civil rights reform

Question 19

Editor of Atlanta Constitution- Advacate for “New South” story of funeral. thought S. was too dependent on N. economy

Answer 19

Henry W Grady

Question 20

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 20

destined to enforce separation of races

Poll Tax and Literacy Test

Question 21

Black, one of the first millionaires

Answer 21

Madame C.J. Walker

Question 22

Urges blacks to be economically independent

Discouraged protesting discrimination

Answer 22

Booker T. Wasington

Question 23

Sought to end lynching of black slaves

urged blacks to lave hostile cities

Answer 23

Ida B. Wells

Question 24

Govnt agency managed natives

Answer 24

Bureau of Indian Affairs BIA

Question 25

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 25

Cheyenne & Arapaho tribes want peace... men leave to hunt... Colonel John M. CHIVINGTON attacks... 200 killed (mostly women and children)

Question 26

The Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 26

Govnt breaks treaty for gold... SITTING BULL leads 2500 including CRAZY HORSE against GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER's 600 men... US loss- no survivors Last victory for Sioux

Question 27

Wounded Knee

Answer 27

Sioux massacred by US after trying to take away firearms

Question 28

End of Resistance

Answer 28

Geronimo escaped Apache reservation with 75 and raids settlements- surrender marks the end to violent resistance in the reservation system

Question 29

Asked Rutherford B Hayes to let her people return

Answer 29

Thoc-me-tony (Sarah Winnemucca)

Question 30

The Daws Act

Answer 30

Required native land to be surveyed (and sold off for farming?)

Question 31

Homestead Act

Answer 31

a citizen can claim surveyed land up to 160 acres

Question 32

Pacific Railway Act

Answer 32

Gave land to railroad companies to develop railroad line linking E to W coast

Question 33

Morril Act

Answer 33

Granted 17mill acres to federal states and ordered the sale of the land to finance agricultural and engineering colleges

Question 34

3 main groups move W

Answer 34

White Americans from E Black Americans from S Immigrants

Question 35

Moving W offered a chance to escape what 3 things

Answer 35

poverty violence and persecution

Question 36

Moving W offered what 2 things

Answer 36

farmers seeking fertile soil | Offered a chance to start over

Question 37

3 new pieces of farming equiptment

Answer 37

"self binding" harvester Stronger/sharper plows The Combine

Question 38

Cowboys moved cattle from...

Answer 38

TX to Missouri and Kansas

Question 39

Why did the cattle boom end

Answer 39

barbed wire | oversaturated market

Question 40

Location of first gold rush

Answer 40

Colorado

Question 41

one of World's Larges Silver mine

Answer 41

The Comstock Lode (Nevada)

Question 42

3 cities that were originally mining camps

Answer 42

Denver, CO Carson city, NV Helena, MT