Multiple Choice Questions

When congress votes for an unnecessary building project so that a member can get more district popularity
  • pork-barrel bills
  • the "bloody shirt"
  • "crime of '73"
  • half-breed
The Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the gold standard and de-monetized silver. U.S. set the specie standard in gold and not silver, upsetting miners who referred to it as a crime
  • "crime of '173"
  • "crime of '73"
  • "crime of '72"
  • "crime of '68"
"The Czar" When Republicans controlled everything, he was Speaker of the House and he ran the House like his own castle. He and
  • Tweed Ring
  • Thomas Reed
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Thomas Nast
the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
  • Spoils system
  • Nepotism
  • Pendleton act
  • Nullification
began a transfer of federal jobs from the patronage to the merit system
  • Spoils System
  • Bland-allison Act
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Pendleton Act
against spoil system,
  • Thomas Reed
  • Half-Breed
  • Stalwart
  • Pork-barrel Bills
Newspaper cartoonist who produced satirical cartoons, he invented "Uncle Sam" and came up with the elephant and the donkey for the political parties. He nearly brought down Boss Tweed.
  • Thomas Reed
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Samuel Tilden
  • Thomas Nast
an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy
  • grandfather clause
  • Thomas Reed
  • Gilded Age
  • Chester A. Arthur
Democratic nominee for president in 1876, loses narrowly
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Samuel Tilden
Political party that farmers sought refuge in at first, combined inflationary appeal of earlier Greenabackers w/ program for improving labor
  • Populist Party
  • Greenback Labor Party
  • Liberal Republicans
  • Grand Army Of The Republic
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
  • Compromise of 1877
  • grandfather clause
  • "crime of '73"
  • pork-barrel bills
System that allowed farmers to get more credit. They used harvested crops to pay back their loans.
  • pendleton act
  • credit mobilier
  • sharecropping
  • crop-lien system
a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Stalwart
  • James A. Garfield
  • Half-breed
19th president of the united states, was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • William Mckinley
a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • Teapot Dome
  • Credit Mobilier
  • Whiskey Ring
  • Tweed Ring
government buys silver each month and mint it into coins
  • Pendleton Act
  • Credit Mobilier
  • Crop-lien System
  • Bland-Allison Act
Democrat who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the election of 1868
  • Horatio Seymour
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Samuel Tilden
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
Party formed in 1872 (split from the ranks of the Republican Party) which argued that the Reconstruction task was complete and should be set aside. Significantly dampered further Reconstructionist efforts.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Tweed Ring
  • Credit Mobilier
  • Liberal Republicans
remembering the civil war and what happened
  • the "bloody shirt"
  • pendleton act
  • cross of gold speech
  • grand army of the republic
25th president, Republican, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism
  • William McKinley
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
Appears to sparkle but beneath the surface lies corruption, crime, poverty, and disparities in wealth
  • Populism
  • Progressive Era
  • Gilded Age
  • Tweed Ring
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
  • Jay Gould
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Thomas Nast
  • Adlai E. Stevenson
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  • Horatio Seymour
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Grover Cleveland
the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
  • Conservatism
  • Populism
  • Socialism
  • Progressivism
the 20th President of the US; he died two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Grover Cleveland
  • William Mckinley
  • James A. Garfield
Adopted in 1870 as a Reconstruction Amendment, the 15th Amendment prohibited any government in the US from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
  • Radical Republicans
  • Sixteenth Amendment
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fifteenth Amendment
A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on land. After the Civil War, sharecropping was a widespread response to the economic upheaval caused by the emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of poor whites. Sharecroopping helped to maintain the status quo between Blacks and Whites.
  • Klu Klux Klan
  • Sharecropping
  • Black Codes
  • Carpetbaggers
A pejoritive term used by Southerners against Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 andThe term suggested oportunism and exploitation by outsiders. In conjunction with Republicans, they are said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains.
  • Scalawags
  • Radical Republicans
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Carpetbaggers
(1808-1875) The 17th President of the US from 1865-1869, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the presidency. Johnson presided over the Reconstruction era, and his policies failed to promote the rights of Freedmen. He was much disliked by Republicans. He was impeached by the House of Representatives but the impeachment failed in the Senate by 1 vote. He was the first president to be impeached. The House of Representatives charged him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he wanted to remove his Secretary of War w/o senate approval.
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Radical Republicans
  • Carpetbaggers
Abraham Lincoln's plan for reinstatement of Southern states, called the 10% Reconstruction Plan. The plan decreed that Southern states could e re-admitted to the Union after 10% of the 1860 vote count from the state had taken an oath of allegiance to the US and to abide by Emancipation. This was the first step to re-admission for former Confederate states, and was meant to shorten the war by offering a moderate peace plan.
  • Wade Davis Plan
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Ten Percent Plan
Starting from about 1854, the radical Reps. lasted until the end of Reconstruction inThe Radical Republicans strongly opposed slavery and strongly distrusted ex-Confederates. They demanded harsh policies for Reconstruction. The Radical Reps. opposed fellow parties and other Republicans. Radicals wanted uncompensated abolition of slavery and civil rights for freedmen. They initiated Reconstruction Acts and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederates. Vigorously opposed by the Democratic Party.
  • Scalawags
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Radical Republicans
  • Andrew Johnson
The term "Scalawags" was a derogatory name used by Southerners as a name for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction. Scalawags took advantage of Reconstruction Laws ofBlack freedmen and Northerners teamed up with Scalawags to take control of local and state govs.
  • Scalawags
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Radical Republicans
  • Andrew Johnson
Proposed in 1864, the Wade-Davis Bill was another plan for Reconstruction, and was proposed by two radical Reps. The Bill proposed that a state needed to have a majority of people take the Ironclad Oath, which was said the oath taker never supported the Confederacy in the past. The Bill passed both houses of Congress, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln.
  • Wade Davis Plan
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Ten Percent Plan
0 h : 0 m : 1 s

Multiple Choice Questions
Answered Not Answered Not Visited Correct : 0 Incorrect : 0