SSUSH10 Quiz

The "Compromise of 1877" regarding the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden is BEST characterized by which of these facts?

• Hayes was accepted as

  President and he appointed a Democrat to be his Vice-president.

• The Democrats accepted

  Hayes in exchange for being able to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice.

• The compromise failed and in a bitterly fought battle the House of Representatives elected Hayes as President.

• Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights of the freedmen decided by state governments.

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

• his idea for

  instituting an income tax.

• how to draft more men into the Union Army.

• re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

• his quest to reconquer

  only 10% of the South.

The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

• provide 40 acres and a

  mule for each slave.

• gain the vote for

  millions of former slaves.

• provide work, education, and relief for

  former slaves.

• get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South

Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Scalawags

• the White Knights

• the Knights of

  Columbus

Which statement BEST describes the essence of this chart?

• Despite the many gains since the Civil War, blacks in the Reconstruction Era still struggled to find political participation.

• Because no Constitutional Amendments had been passed, blacks could not have any political power in the South.

• Blacks were

  proportionally represented in all Southern states at the Constitutional

  Convention.

• The Freedmen's Bureau

  had been successful in gaining land and education for former slaves.

Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as

• a plan to fix the

  damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.

• a desire to rebuild

  the southern states quickly to help control the economy.

• a desire to rebuild the country quickly and

  without ill feelings following the war.

• a desire to punish

  those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.

The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color is the

• Twelfth Amendment.

• Fifteenth Amendment.

• Thirteenth Amendment.

• Fourteenth Amendment.

"(They) must make annual contracts for their labor in writing; if they should run away from their tasks, they forfeited their wages for the year. Whenever it was required of them they must present licenses (in a town from the mayor; elsewhere from a member of the board of police of the beat) citing their places of residence and authorizing them to work."

This passage from 1865 is part of a series of rules immediately after the Civil War that were known as

• Black Codes.

• Jim Crow laws.

• the South Carolina

  constitution.

• the Charter of the Ku

  Klux Klan.

When it was created, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ensured rights for

• women.

• children.

• Native Americans.

• African Americans.

Which act denied the President the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by a past President without the advice and consent of the Senate?

• the Hatch Act

• the War Powers Act

• the Glass-Stegall Act

• the Tenure of Office Act