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In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

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rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union.

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In the postwar South

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the economy and social structure was utterly devastated

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Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

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intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.

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In the 1866 congressional elections

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voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction

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In 1865, Southern

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blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.

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During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except

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voting

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Political corruption during Reconstruction was

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common in both North and South.

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In 1867, Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greatest success in foreign relations when he

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purchased Alaska from Russia.

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Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term

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to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.

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Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

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came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy

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As part of their Reconstruction plan, radical Republicans originally expected to

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use federal power to aid blacks.

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Congressional Reconstruction hoped to provide basic rights and protection for the former slaves in the South through the

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Fourteenth Amendment.

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Radical Republican leaders in Congress included

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Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi.

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All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except

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Johnson promised to step down as president.

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Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

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freed slaves must be granted the right to vote.

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Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

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educate them on their civic duties.

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As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)

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champion of the poor whites

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Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because

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it was finally recognized that the charges were dubious and political.

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A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

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white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators

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For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except

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that large numbers would move north

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The Freedmen's Bureau

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was intended to be a postwar welfare agency for former slaves

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Andrew Johnson was made Lincoln's running mate in 1864 because Johnson was a

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War Democrat. loyal unionist from a Southern state.

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Most radical Reconstruction regimes in the South Johnson promised to step down as president.

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b. established public-school systems. c. were troubled by graft and corruption. e. expanded the legal rights of women.

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Reconstruction involved extended controversies over

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readmission of Southern states into the Union.

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Among the legacies of the Reconstruction effort were

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a long-term eclipse of Republican party strength in southern states.

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The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in

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education.

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To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

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the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War

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Radical Reconstruction state governments

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passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms

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The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following except

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support the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.

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The last of the Reconstruction era amendments to pass was the

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Fifteenth

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The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

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Tennessee.

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The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

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a restriction against black migration from the South

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The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

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after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868.

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was

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James Garfield.

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President Cleveland's hostility to silver and silver-backed currency was driven primarily by his fear that

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the growing drain of gold from the U.S. Treasury would force the United States off the gold standard.

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Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like

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prohibition and education.

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President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of

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borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate

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New York's notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of

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New York Times exposés and the cartoons of Thomas Nast.

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An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of

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the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers

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Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader

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William Jennings Bryan.

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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

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"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.

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Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often subject to

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lynching.

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In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

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owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.

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Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated. A. Roscoe Conkling 1. "Half-Breeds" B. James Blaine 2. Stalwarts C. Horace Greeley 3. Regular Republicans D. Ulysses Grant 4. Liberal Republicans

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e. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

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President Cleveland's response to the depression of the 1890s demonstrated that he

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was unable to deal effectively with such a massive economic crisis

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One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was

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sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.

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In the Gilded Age, hard money policies were reflected in

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a. contraction. b. the Resumption Act of 1875. c. the "Crime of '73."

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Which of the following was not among the groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?

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Northern big cities

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The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

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railroad construction kickbacks.

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The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by

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a. disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.

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The 1884 election contest between James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland was noted for

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a. its viciously personal attacks between the two candidates.

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The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

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a. aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues.

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The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in

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c. a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South.

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The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were

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a. Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.

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President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

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a. the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the eccentric editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.

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The national railroad strike of 1877 started when

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a. the four largest railroads cut salaries by 10 percent.

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The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to

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e. take a competitive examination.

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With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from

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b. big corporations.

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Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?

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a. Grover Cleveland

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The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

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a. the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South.

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Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?

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d. Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers

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President James A. Garfield was assassinated

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c. by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.

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