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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
C.
The most ambitious goal of the Freedman's Bureau was to reform southern
A. politics
B. education
C. land ownership
D. health care
B.
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
A.
After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by seperating themsleves from white institutions.
True
False
True
President Johnson was impeached and convicted.
True
False
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
True
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
D.
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
D.
The Timber Culture Act and the Desert Land Act were both designed to squeeze individual homesteaders out of the American West.
True
False
False
The story of the Nez Perce Indians is of a peaceful tribe forced to turn terrible violent.
True
False
False
The Dawes Act sought to allot land to individual Indian owners and gradually eliminate tribal land ownership.
True
False
True
Freedman's Bureau
distributed food to former slaves and est schools
Wade-Davis Bill
Radical republican's harsh reconstruction plan
First Civil Rights Act
Blacks declared citizens of the US
Johnson's "Restoration"
similar to Wade-Davis Bill1
The Fourteenth Amendment
Everyone born in the US is a citizen
Tenure of Office Act
president forbidden from removing a civil official without consent of the Senate
Crop-lien system
system in which poor farmers relied on country store credit with inflated interest rates
Credit Mobiler Scandal
corrupt incident where Grant's officials recieved stock in exchange for no investigations
Whiskey Ring
Grant's officials were filing false tax reports to cheat the gov't out of its money
Specie Resumption Act (1875)
greenback dollars would be backed by gold
Treaty of Washington
agreement between Britain and the US after the US claimed Britain violated neutrality during the Civil War
"redeemers"
a genuinely new ruling class of merchants, industrialists, railroad developers and financiers
Brooker T. Washington
Blacks should become industrially, not classically educated.
They should focus on self-improvement, not political rights
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