APUSH ch. 22+23
Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he
had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.
As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated
inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency
In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greatest success in foreign relations when he
purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks.
The absence of children in largely all-male Chinese immigrant communities meant that
the cultural and language assimilation fostered by children were harder to attain.
The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
In the postwar South
the economy and social structure was utterly devastated.
A major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was
the expansion of more factories, railroads, and mines than existing markets would bear
The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in
the white South and big-city immigrant machines.
During Reconstruction, African American women in the South assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except
voting in state and local elections.
Which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?
Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers
Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise in the 1890s of the pro-silver political leader
William Jennings Bryan.
Which of these is not a true statement about women's rights activists during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras?
Women's rights activists campaigned in support of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
aroused enormous turnouts among voters even though there were few significant issues.
Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that
freed slaves must be granted the right to vote.
In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
"separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment
All of these choices are correct
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
All of these choices are correct
At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using
All of these choices are correct.
Which of the following internal developments in China resulted in Chinese immigration to the United States?
All of these choices are correct.
____ believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, "conquered provinces" that had to seek readmission on whatever economic and political terms Congress demanded.
Congressional radical Republicans
The last of the Reconstruction era amendments to pass was the
Fifteenth.
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a Democratic party affiliation, differing from the other four presidents?
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison's victory over Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that
Harrison lost the popular vote to Cleveland but won in the Electoral College.
The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland.
Which of the following was not among the functions provided by the black Union League?
Helping blacks migrate from the South to the North
Which of the following was not among the regional groups that formed the solid political base of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century?
Immigrants living in the large Northeastern cities.
The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was
Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress.
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was
Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.
All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except
President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted.
In religious and cultural terms, the Republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from
Puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society.
In 1865, following the conclusion of the Civil War,
Southern blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.
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
Tennessee
Reconstruction might have been more successful if
Thaddeus Stevens's radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted
A group of Kentucky blacks provided what description of the KKK in an 1871 letter to Congress?
The KKK rode through towns at night, robbing, whipping, ravishing and killing blacks
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the relationship between blacks and sharecropping in the years after Reconstruction?
White southerners did not work as sharecroppers.
In President Andrew Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was
a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed
The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as
a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was
a political turn to the Democrats and the rise of the new Greenback Labor party.
The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of poor white and poor black farmers resulted in
a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South through the widespread use of literacy tests and poll taxes to deny blacks the ballot.
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.
The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that
after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
aimed at swift restoration of the Southern states after a few modest political conditions were met by the Southern states.
The conservative white Bourbon Democrats of the South largely succeeded in crushing the Populist revolt by
appealing to poor white farmers' antiblack racial feelings against their economic interests
With the Pendleton Act prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from
big corporations.
From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were
black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas.
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilier
bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.
The legal codes that established the system of segregation were
called Jim Crow laws.
As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)
champion of the poor whites.
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed
citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
Political corruption during Reconstruction was
common in both North and South.
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were
designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
The main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882 was/were to
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
The Liberal Republican revolt from the regular Republican party in 1872 was motivated primarily by
disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration.
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his
dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act
Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to
educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates
The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in
educating former slaves.
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
The Billion-Dollar Congress quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
expanding pensions for Civil War veterans and increasing federal government purchases of silver.
Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of
intimidating blacks and undermining them politically
All of the following are true statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 except
it was supposed to guarantee equal rights in voting and access to education for blacks and whites.
Grover Cleveland proposed to address the problem of the large federal budget surplus by
lowering the tariff.
Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often
lynched by Southern whites
For Southern blacks, emancipation following the Civil War meant all of the following except
maintenance in the status quo ante of the social behavior and personal relations between white Southerners and freed blacks
Black Americans were hard hit by the gloom times of the depression years of the mid 1870s because
many had put their savings in the Freedman's Savings and Trust, only to see it vanish due to bad investments by the savings bank.
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.
Those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-Civil War decades were usually
party loyalists
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress
passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.
Radical Reconstruction state governments in the South
passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms such as establishing adequate public schools and launching public works.
During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was/were
political patronage.
The Fourteenth Amendment
prohibited from federal and state office those former Confederates who as federal officeholders had once sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
Despite the lack of national political issues, Gilded Age elections often produced fierce local contests over culturally and religiously charged issues like
prohibition and education.
The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except
relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters
One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor between the Democrats and the Republicans of the Gilded Age was
sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties.
All of the following reveal the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation except
some slaves claimed sections of plantation land as their own.
The Exodusters' westward mass migration finally faltered when
steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi.
At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners
still believed that their view of secession was correct and their cause was just
The fundamental attitude of Hayes and other Republican administrations toward labor agitation was
strong support for the railroads and other business in their efforts to crush labor organizing.
Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges ultimately because
sufficient numbers of Republican senators recognized that the impeachment charges were legally dubious and politically charged and voted "not guilty."
The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following except
support the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously mentally sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.
Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of
the Fourteenth Amendment.
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers.
To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that
the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877 and a "solid" Democratic South became politically institutionalized.
The political developments of the l890s were largely shaped by
the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time.
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
the two sets of different election returns, one Democratic, and one Republican, submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated
the typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.
All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except
they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry.
Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term
to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners
Grover Cleveland stirred political opposition by
vetoing many veterans' pension bills
In the 1866 congressional elections
voters endorsed the Republican congressional approach to Reconstruction.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War
waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.
During the mid to late nineteenth century, Chinese women
were very few in number, and most became prostitutes.
For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that
with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in the near future.
Labor unrest during the Hayes administration stemmed from
years of depression and deflation that undermined workers' wages and living standards.
