Question 1

Discuss efforts by southerners -- including the southern Democrats' -- to limit opportunities for and to control the activities of freedmen during the Reconstruction period.

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Question 2

Why is the period from 1863 to 1877 called the "Reconstruction" era? Describe the conditions that existed in the post-Civil War South that necessitated a reconstruction process.

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Question 3

Examine both the achievements and failures of the Grant administration. Keeping his two terms in context with the larger political and social backdrop that was Reconstruction America, would you assert that his administration was a failure?

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Question 4

The Republican governor of Mississippi who asked Grant to send troops to control whites' violent intimidation of black voters in that state during the election of 1875 was ____________________.

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Question 5

Johnson created the ____________________ Party.

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Question 6

The disputed results of the 1876 presidential election so raised people's anger that many feared another _________________.

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Question 7

The ____________________ was a terrorist organization that attacked blacks and set out to destroy the Republican Party in the South.

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Question 8

The congressional acts that divided the former Confederate states (except Tennessee) into five military districts, enfranchised black men, disenfranchised some Confederates, and called for new constitutional conventions were the ______________________________.

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Question 9

Compare and contrast the Lincoln Reconstruction plan with the Wade-Davis Bill.

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Question 10

What happened to former slaves at the end of the Civil War? What assistance was offered by the government? How successful was the government in achieving its objectives for freed men and women?

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Question 11

What is the significance of the election of 1876 for the history and progress of Reconstruction?

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Question 12

Women suffrage leaders who opposed the Fifteenth Amendment were ____________________ and ____________________.

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Question 13

In order for a Southern state to be declared reconstructed and its delegates seated in Congress, the state had to ratify the ____________________ Amendment.

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Question 14

____________________ was a construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad that gave congressmen stock in return for land grants and loans from the government.

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Question 15

Dissatisfied with Grant's administration, Liberal Republicans nominated _________________ for President in 1872.

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Question 16

The financier whose pyramid schemes collapsed in 1873 and helped touch off an economic collapse was ____________________.

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Question 17

In 1866, black and white abolitionists formed the American Equal Rights Association to work for ____________________.

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Question 18

After the election of 1876 the Reconstruction Republican governments collapsed in the last two southern states, ____________________ and ____________________.

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Question 19

Examine the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Explore the various reasons that Congress wanted to impeach him (both implied and expressed) and the reasons for their ultimate success or failure.

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Question 20

In ____________________, South Carolina, a battle between a black militia and the white Red Shirts led to the murder of several militiamen.

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Quiz 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877