Unit 15

Question 1

What was Grant’s military record before the Civil War?

Answer 1

He was an officer in the Mexican War and at various military posts in the U.S.

Question 2

Who provided Grant with his margin of victory in the 1868 election?

Answer 2

Black voters

Question 3

What does the 15 Amendment prohibit?

Answer 3

The denial of people’s right to vote because of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude

Question 4

Who was Grant’s opponent in the 1872 election?

Answer 4

Horace Greely

Question 5

What were greenbacks?

Answer 5

Paper money issued during the Civil War

Question 6

How did greenbacks affect the nation’s economy?

Answer 6

It made money cheaper and allowed some degree of inflation. Farmers and debtors wanted them used

Question 7

What discoveries encouraged people to move west?

Answer 7

The discovery of gold, silver, and copper in western areas

Question 8

Where did most cattle drives begin and end?

Answer 8

The vast expanses of Texas to Abilene, Kansas

Question 9

How many battles between Native Americans and the U.S. Army took place between 1869 and 1875?

Answer 9

Over two hundred

Question 10

Who won the battle between an Army force led by George A. Custer and Sioux warriors led by Sitting Bull?

Answer 10

The Sioux warriors

Question 11

How much did urban population increase between 1830 and 1870?

Answer 11

Nine-fold from 1.1 million to 9.9 million

Question 12

What areas of the country had large percentages of foreign-born immigrants or children of immigrants?

Answer 12

New England and the Middle Atlantic States

Question 13

What group was largely denied access to the American dream?

Answer 13

African Americans

Question 14

What was the proposed eastern terminus of a southern-route transcontinental railroad?

Answer 14

New Orleans

Question 15

What two companies built the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 15

The Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad

Question 16

What was the eastern terminus and what was the western terminus for the railroad?

Answer 16

Omaha, Nebraska (eastern) and Sacramento, California (western)

Question 17

What immigrant groups were hired in large number by the railroad companies?

Answer 17

Irish and Chinese immigrants

Question 18

When was the transcontinental railroad finished?

Answer 18

May 10, 1869

Question 19

At what point did the two lines meet?

Answer 19

On the golden spike in Promontory Point, Utah

Question 20

Who were the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in 1876?

Answer 20

Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 21

The electoral votes from what states were questioned in the election?

Answer 21

Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida

Question 22

What did Congress do to settle the controversy of the presidential election?

Answer 22

They gathered five members of the Senate, House and Supreme Court (7 Democrats and 8 Republicans, including Republican Justice Jospeh Bradley, who replaced David Davis) to vote on who won. By an 8-7 party vote, Hayes won the election

Question 23

What deal did leading Republicans and southern Democrats evidently make behind the scenes in late February of 1877?

Answer 23

The deal was that if Hayes were to be elected, he would withdraw the remaining Reconstruction troops from the South

Question 24

What was the main goal for the Democrats involved in the negotiations?

Answer 24

To go their own way in southern state governments

Question 25

What happened after Hayes took office?

Answer 25

Democrats opposed Hayes’ Speaker of the House (Republican James Garfield), the Republican-led governments in Louisiana and South Carolina soon collapsed without the support of Federal troops, and the Democrats controlled all eleven former Confederate state governments and were back in charge in the South