Reaching a Compromise

Which of the following sentences best describes something Lucy Hayes is well remembered for?

• She was the first woman to earn a black belt.

• She was the first woman to get a college degree.

• She was the first woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar.

• She was the first woman to be elected as President of the United States.

Which of the following is not a unique fact about Belva Lockwood?

• She was given her law degree by President Ulysses S. Grant.

• She was the first woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar.

• She was the first woman to earn a college degree.

• She was the first woman to run for President of the United States.

Which of the following sentences best explains Rutherford B. Hayes’ Compromise of 1877?

• He allowed states in the South to keep slaves.

• He brought the Republican and Democratic parties together to form the Continental Congress.

• He won the electoral college by one vote.

• He ended Reconstruction by pulling the rest of the troops out of the South.

How did Rutherford B. Hayes serve the country during the war?

• He was immediately promoted to commander in chief.

• He became a soldier, then a major, then was promoted to brevet major general.

• He became the highest decorated war hero during the Civil War.

• He did not serve our country in the Civil War.

Which of the following sentences from the text best explains what “separate but equal” meant to the black population in 1896?

• All of the facilities for blacks and whites were separated but they were all of the same quality.

• It meant they were kept apart from their white neighbors and had to use their own public bathrooms, restaurants and certain buildings.

• It meant they had to pay their own taxes.

• All facilities could be used no matter what your race was.

How did Abraham Lincoln’s plan to reunite the states differ from the ideas of Congress?

• Lincoln wanted to take a long time to bring the country back together, to punish the South; Congress wanted a speedy return to normalcy.

• Congress wanted to give the South a free ride and not make them pay for war debt; Lincoln thought they should pay heavily.

• Lincoln didn’t want to be too harsh toward the Confederates, and he wanted to give the freed people many rights; Congress felt the opposite.

• Congress wanted 80 percent of a state’s population to sign an Oath of Loyalty before rejoining the Union; Lincoln wanted them to rejoin without an Oath of Loyalty.

Which of the following two sentences best explains what major issues the South still faced after the war?

• They still wanted to govern themselves.

• They wanted to free the slaves.

• They wanted to grow more crops.

• They wanted to continue to get cheap labor to work their farms and plantations.

How did Andrew Johnson find balance between the ideas of Lincoln and Congress?

• Johnson didn’t punish the Confederates as much as Congress wanted and he didn’t make sure freed people got all the rights they needed.

• Johnson punished the Confederates like Congress wanted and he made sure all freed people got their rights.

• Johnson freed all the slaves and gave them their full rights.

• Johnson passed every law written by Congress and enforced all of the new slave laws.

The counting of enslaved people for the purposes of determining representation was the main issue of which compromise?​ (a)  

• 3/5 Compromise
• 1/5 Compromise
• 2/5 Compromise

Compromise

• Both sides give in a bit to reach an agreement
• Group that promotes their views and tries to influence the government
• Part of a country that is not yet a state