Unit 4 History.

Question 1

What act did the Compromise of 1850 uphold?

Answer 1

The Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 1

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 1

Henry Clay.

Question 2

What was the 10% plan?

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln’s plan to pardon all confederates who swore allegiance to the USA.

Question 3

What did the Wade-Davis pill say should be in charge rather than the president?

Answer 3

Congress.

Question 4

True or false: The Wade-Davis Bill would uphold the rights of people of color, including suffrage.

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

What were the conditions the Reconstruction Act would give to Southern states who wanted to be readmitted.

Answer 5

That they (including black people) would vote for new delegates to make new state constitutions.

Question 6

Define tenant farming.

Answer 6

When farmers could rent land and keep the entire harvest.

Question 7

True or false: Sharecropping was essentially a legal form of slavery.

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

True or false: Sharecropping workers could pay back their debts.

Answer 8

False.

Question 9

What were three methods the South used to prevent blacks from exercising their suffrage?

Answer 9

Poll taxes, the literacy test and the Grandfather Clause.