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1
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President Ulysses S. Grants lack of experience helped to divide the Republican Party and to undermine public support for what?

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Reconstruction

2
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During Grant’s first term in office, the Republican-controlled congress continued to enforce what?

A

Reconstruction

3
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Reconstruction expanded the programs it had introduced during the civil war to promote what?

A

Commerce and Industry

4
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Reconstruction kept the sin taxes in place in order to help pay off what??

A

Bonds

5
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Democrats and Republicans were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate which party?

A

Republican

6
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Liberal Republicans left the Republican Party and nominated who?

A

Horace Greeley

7
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The Democratic Party also nominated Greeley in an effort to defeat who?

A

Grant

8
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Who won? Greeley or Grant?

A

Grant

9
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a series of scandals and economic depression hurt what of Grants?

A

reputation of his administration

10
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Grant’s secretary of war accepted what? and then resigned before he could be impeached?

A

Bribes

11
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In 1875 what scandal broke out?

A

Whiskey Ring

12
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A wave known as the what spread through the financial community?

A

Panic of 1873

13
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By appealing to white racism and defining elections as a struggle between whites and African Americans what political group was able to win back the support of white owners of small farms?

A

Democratic

14
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By 1876, Democrats had taken control of all Southern state legislatures except…

A

Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida

15
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Republicans then nominated who for the 1877 presidential election?

A

Rutherford B. Hayes

16
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The Democrats nominated who for the 1877 election?

A

Samuel Tilden

17
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What had caused the winner of the election to be unknown?

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Voter fraud, election fraud

18
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To resolve the 1877 election situation, Congress appointed a committee that consissted of how many people?

A

15

19
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Who won the 1877 election?

A

Hayes

20
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The outcome of the 1877 election became known as what?

A

The Compromise of 1877

21
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In April 1877 Hayes pulled federal troops out of the

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South

22
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After troops were pulled what was over.

A

Reconstruction

23
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Many Southern leaders realized the need for a what.

A

New South

24
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Despite it’s industrial growth in the south, the region remained..

A

agrarian

25
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The collapse of what ended African American’s hopes of being granted their own land in the South

A

Reconstruction

26
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Many African Americans became what?

A

Tenant Farmers or Sharecroppers

27
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Many sharecroppers were in debt and had to deal with

A

crop liens

28
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Eventually when sharecroppers got into too much debt they would enter a financial condition called

A

debt peonage

29
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Although many African Americans were free, they were still trapped working on what?

A

plantations

30
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paid rent for the land they farmed

A

tenant farmers

31
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influential newspaper publisher

A

Horace Greeley

32
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paid a share of their crops for the land they farmed

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sharecroppers

33
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to save

A

redeem

34
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merchants could take a farmer’s crops to cover debts

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crop liens

35
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The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is known as..

A

The Compromise of 1877

36
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Taxes the Republican Congress placed on alcohol and tobacco were nicknamed

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sin taxes

37
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When the powerful banking company of Jay Cooke and Company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the nations financial community felt a wave of feat known as

A

Panic of 1873

38
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Republicans who were concerned that men who were in office to make money and sell influence were beginning to dominate the party were called

A

Liberal Republicans

39
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To get the seed and supplies they needed, sharecroppers often relied on credit from

A

Crop liens