Unit 7 Quest

Question 1

Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)

Answer 1

signed into law by Lincoln, provided food, housing, and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. Johnson tries to veto its extension, Congress overrides his veto.

Question 2

Reconstruction Act (1867)

Answer 2

Congress passes a law dividing the South into 5 military districts. Johnson vetoes, Congress overrides. South would remain under the military’s control until 1877.

Question 3

Congress tries to impeach Johnson

Answer 3

He vetoed 29 bills. Pass an act which makes it illegal to fire someone in the presidential cabinet without notifying Congress.

Question 4

Johnson fires his Secretary of War

Answer 4

Congress attempts to impeach him but the Senate votes to acquit him and he remains president by only 1 vote.

Question 5

Black Codes

Answer 5

restrictive laws denying blacks legal equality or political rights that forced former slaves to sign yearly labor contracts or be arrested and jailed for vagrancy.

Question 6

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 6

state and local laws in the South that provided for segregation. Lasted for about 100 years; those who attempted to defy them often faced violence, prison, or death.

Question 7

Segregation

Answer 7

the legal separation of races (blacks and whites)

Question 8

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Answer 8

originally a fraternal group of former Confederate soldiers, it transformed into a national group with the purpose of “maintaining order,” terrorizing, and killing black Americans

Question 9

KKK

Answer 9

group members often met at night wearing white robes (meant to scare former slaves; the ghosts of confederate soldiers)

Question 10

Election of 1868

Answer 10

Grant remains popular during his 1st term

Question 11

Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Force Acts

Answer 11

along with Congress, creates the Department of Justice to help prosecute KKK members. He makes Christmas a federal holiday, and Yellowstone a national park

Question 12

Grant re-elected in 1872

Answer 12

2nd term dominated by 3 scandals

Question 13

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Answer 13

a contracted company building railroads overcharges the government and allows people in Grant’s administration to buy cheap stock.

Question 14

Salary Grab Scandal

Answer 14

Grant raises the salary for President, Supreme Court, and his administration at a time when many Americans are suffering financially.

Question 15

Whiskey Ring Scandal

Answer 15

whiskey distillers commit fraud against the government - members of Grant’s administration knew.

Question 16

The Panic of 1873

Answer 16

also hurts the economy

Question 17

Election of 1876

Answer 17

Republican Rutherford B. Hayes (ex governor of Ohio) vs. Democrat Samuel Tilden (ex governor of New York)

Question 18

The Disputed Election

Answer 18

3 Southern states send in 2 election returns. 19 electoral college votes from 3 states were in question. Congress tries investigating with a commission made up of more Republicans who claim Hayes had won.

Question 19

Compromise of 1877

Answer 19

In exchange for the presidency, Hayes agrees to several “favors.” Most important to the South was removal of the military from the 5 military districts. This officially ends the Reconstruction Era.

Question 20

Situation in the South

Answer 20

With the military gone, the South becomes more aggressive in their racial discrimination - Jim Crow Laws, Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)