Chapter 15

Question 1

Republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the South

Answer 1

Radical Republican

Question 2

One of the most scandal ridden administrations in American history

Answer 2

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 3

Northern Radical who moved to the South

Answer 3

Carpetbagger

Question 4

First president to be impeached; this president generally supported Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction

Answer 4

Andrew Johnson

Question 5

Southern Radical

Answer 5

Scalawag

Question 6

Political cartoonist who advanced reforms

Answer 6

Thomas Nast

Question 7

Denial of someone’s right to vote

Answer 7

Disenfranchisement

Question 8

Corrupt leader who defrauded New York

Answer 8

William Tweed

Question 9

Indictment of a political official by Congress

Answer 9

Impeachment

Question 10

Method for freed slaves to farm land without cash

Answer 10

Sharecropping

Question 11

Southerner who wanted to oust Republican rule and restore white majority rule

Answer 11

Redeemer

Question 12

Political corruption

Answer 12

Grantism

Question 13

Paper money not backed by gold or silver

Answer 13

Greenbacks

Question 14

Eccentric New York newspaper editor who ran against in 1872

Answer 14

Horace Greeley

Question 15

Type of Republican who opposed the Radicals in 1872

Answer 15

Liberal Republican

Question 16

Lincoln’s attempt to reestablish civilian government in the South quickly

Answer 16

Ten percent plan

Question 17

Abolished slavery

Answer 17

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 18

Lawyer who helped to reform corruption in New York

Answer 18

Samuel J Tilden

Question 19

Required that a majority of voters in each Southern state an oath of allegiance

Answer 19

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 20

Guaranteed citizenship rights

Answer 20

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 21

Winner in the most disputed presidential election in American history to that time

Answer 21

Rutherford B Hayes

Question 22

Near unanimous support of the Democratic Party in the former Confederate states following Reconstruction

Answer 22

Solid South

Question 23

First black to serve in congress

Answer 23

Hiram Revels

Question 24

Divided the South into five military districts

Answer 24

Military Reconstruction Act

Question 25

Attempted to regulate the conduct of former slaves

Answer 25

Black codes

Question 26

Guaranteed the right of a citizen to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude "

Answer 26

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 27

Refers to the national governments attempt to rebuild the South according to Radical Republican ideas

Answer 27

Reconstruction

Question 28

Extremists group opposed to Radical Reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during Reconstruction

Answer 28

Ku Klux Klan

Question 29

Act of Congress was designed to protect cabinet members from being fired by the president

Answer 29

Tenure of the Act

Question 30

Political agreement whereby federal troops would be removed from the South

Answer 30

Compromise of 1877

Question 31

The most severe depression in the first one hundred years of America's history

Answer 31

Panic of 73'

Question 32

Scandal that involved a groups criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

Answer 32

Credit mobiler

Question 33

Government agency designed to help former slaves following the war

Answer 33

Freeman's Bureau

Question 34

For what alleged reason was Andrew Johnson impeached?

Answer 34

He dismissed a Radical secretary of war

Question 35

Why did sharecropping become common in the South during Reconstruction

Answer 35

The South lacked sufficient money to pay wages

Question 36

In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate

Answer 36

Manipulating the price of gold

Question 37

What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B Hayes

Answer 37

Removal of federal troops from the south

Question 38

Why was Tammany hall allowed to continue its corruption

Answer 38

Democratic leaders needed it's help in obtaining votes

Question 39

The radicals _____ with Lincoln concerning the percentage of Southern white males who should take N oath of allegiance before a state was readmitted to the union

Answer 39

Disagreed

Question 40

Describe the effects that the Military Reconstruction Act had on the South

Answer 40

The act divided the ten former states of the Confederacy into five military districts

Question 41

List at least two positive accomplishments of the Radical government in the South.

Answer 41

Enactment of universal manhood suffrage, organization of public school systems