AP American: Unit 5 Test

Andrew Johnson
A. was considered too timid to be an effective pres
B. long delayed offering his own plan for reconstruction
C. was a southern democrat
D. was lincoln's vice president for both terms in office

The most ambitious goal of the Freedman's Bureau was to reform southern
A. politics
B. education
C. land ownership
D. health care

In the south during the 1890s
A. the black vote declined
B. the white vote increased
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B

After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by seperating themsleves from white institutions.
True False

President Johnson was impeached and convicted.
True False

Rutherford B Hayes was nominated to run for president by the Republican Party in the election of 1876 over Ulysses S Grant.
True False

The Sand Creek Massacre
A. saw the death of Chief Joseph
B. saw the Arapaho and Cheyenne provoke the US militia into attack
C. was carried out by George Custer
D. involved the slaughter of indian women and children

Which statement regarding the western agricultural economy in th late nineteeth century is/are true?
A. the railroad was the most important factor for its development
B. In the 1870s rainfall in the plains states was above average
C. After the 1880s it began a steady decline
D. all of the above

The Timber Culture Act and the Desert Land Act were both designed to squeeze individual homesteaders out of the American West.
True False

The story of the Nez Perce Indians is of a peaceful tribe forced to turn terrible violent.
True False

The Dawes Act sought to allot land to individual Indian owners and gradually eliminate tribal land ownership.
True False

Freedman's Bureau

Wade-Davis Bill

First Civil Rights Act

Johnson's "Restoration"

The Fourteenth Amendment

Tenure of Office Act

Crop-lien system

Credit Mobiler Scandal

Whiskey Ring

Specie Resumption Act (1875)

Treaty of Washington

"redeemers"

Brooker T. Washington