HISTORY 23

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871 A. was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South. B. was designed to support the Black Codes. C. was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant. D. gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan. E. allowed white Southerners to maintain a police state.

A

During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired A. Alaska. B. Hawaii. C. Guam. D. the Virgin Islands. E. Puerto Rico.

A

The most effective weapon used by Southern whites to undermine Reconstruction was A. economic pressure. B. preventing blacks from voting. C. intimidation. D. political action. E. boycott.

A

The Alabama claims A. saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War. B. involved complaints by the United States against England. C. ended an experiment in black landownership. D. marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority. E. were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.

B

The elections of 1876 saw A. the Supreme Court decide the presidential election. B. a Democrat become president for the first time since the Civil War. C. the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected. D. Ulysses Grant make an unsuccessful bid for an unprecedented third term. E. the governor of New York become president.

C

National support for Reconstruction was undermined by A. the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. B. the growing political strength of Democrats. C. the Panic of 1873. D. perceptions of black-and-carpetbag misgovernment in the South. E. All these answers are correct.

E