test 15

Question 1

first president to be impeached

Answer 1

Johnson

Question 2

Republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the South

Answer 2

radical republicans

Question 3

indictment of a political official by Congress

Answer 3

impeachment

Question 4

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

Answer 4

10% Plan

Question 5

T/F

Radicals agreed with Lincoln:percentage of males take oath before a state readmitted to Union

Answer 5

false

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 7

T/F

President Johnson came one vote short of being removed from office

Answer 7

true

Question 8

term refers to national government’s rebuilding the South according to Radical Republican ideas

Answer 8

Reconstruction

Question 9

This Amendment guarantee citizenship rights

Answer 9

14th

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Tenure of Office Act

Question 12

the president who generally supported Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction

Answer 12

johnson

Question 13

Why was Johnson impeached?

Answer 13

He dismissed a secretary of war

Question 14

This Amendment abolished slavery

Answer 14

13th

Question 14

This Amendment guaranteed the right of a citizen to vote

Answer 14

15th

Question 15

the corrupt leader who defrauded New York City

Answer 15

Boss Tweed

Question 16

political cartoonist who advocated reforms

Answer 16

Thomas Nast

Question 17

eccentric New York newspaper editor who ran against Grant in 1872

Answer 17

Horace Greely

Question 18

lawyer who helped to reform corruption in NYC

Answer 18

Samuel Tilden

Question 19

political corruption

Answer 19

grantism

Question 20

winner in the most disputed presidential election in American history at that time

Answer 20

Hayes

Question 21

type of Republican who opposed the Radicals in 1872

Answer 21

Liberal

Question 22

paper money not backed by gold or silver

Answer 22

Greenbacks

Question 23

this scandal involved a group’s criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

Answer 23

Credit Mobilier

Question 24

term applied to the political agreement whereby federal troops would be removed from the South

Answer 24

Compromise of 1877

Question 25

Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for support in Rutherford B. Hayes as president?

Answer 25

Removal of troops

Question 26

What is meant by “waving the bloody shirt”?

Answer 26

blaming Democrats for the war

Question 27

Why was Tammany Hall allowed to continue its corruption?

Answer 27

Democrats needed them

Question 28

In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate?

Answer 28

Manipulate price of gold

Question 29

the first black to serve in the U.S. Congress

Answer 29

Hiram Revels

Question 30

Northern Radical who moved to the South

Answer 30

Carpetbaggers

Question 31

Southern Radical

Answer 31

Scalawag

Question 32

denial of someone’s right to vote

Answer 32

Disfranchisement

Question 33

T/F | Radical Republicans controlled state governments South by denying vote to former Confederates

Answer 33

true

Question 34

method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash

Answer 34

Sharecropping

Question 35

T/F | Reconstruction forced South to produce wheat/ rice, not cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco

Answer 35

true

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Redeemer

Question 37

divided the South into 5 military districts

Answer 37

Military Reconstruction Act

Question 38

attempted to regulate the conduct of former slaves

Answer 38

Black Codes

Question 39

this government agency was designed to help former slaves following the war

Answer 39

Freeman's Bureau

Question 40

group who opposed Radical Reconstruction and sought to prevent Blacks from voting

Answer 40

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Question 41

What happened to Robert E. Lee after the war?

Answer 41

President of Washington College