WorksheetsChapter 10, Lesson 3 Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
The outcome of the presidential election of 1876, with Hayes winning the Electoral College, is known as
Carpetbag Compromise
Debt Peonage
the Compromise of 1877
the Panic of 1873
During the Civil War, Republicans placed taxes on luxury items like tobacco and alcohol. These taxes remained in effect after the war was over as well. Democrats and others nicknamed these taxes, "____________" taxes.
Luxury taxes
War taxes
Sin taxes
Addiction taxes
In Grant's second term, a series of scandals hurt his administration. One such scandal involved distillers in St. Louis at Annheuser-Busch. These distillers tried to cheat the government by filing false tax reports. This scandal became known as _____________?
Teapot Dome Scandal
Whiskey Ring Scandal
St. Louis Distillers Scandal
Belknap Scandal
Mr. Morgan stressed during this lesson that Grant was a weak president because _____________?
Grant believed that he should lead and be listened to above the wishes of Congress.
Grant believed that he could enact legislation himself.
Grant believed that Congress should lead and set policy and he should just follow.
Grant believed that he alone should dictate what's good for the country.
One organization that Grant worked hard to put eliminate during the 1870's was the _________?
Ku Klux Klan
Department of Navy
Wall Street Gang
Electoral College
White Southerners who were dedicated to saving the South from what they called, "Black Republican" rule were called _____________?
Unionists
Redeemers
Terrorists
Radical Republicans
How did Congress resolve the disputed election of 1876?
Congress appointed a 15-person commission to decide who should get the electoral votes from states in the South where the results were in dispute.
Congress set up the "Whiskey Ring" to investigate the disputed states election procedures and their use of alcohol when counting the ballots.
Congress simply declared the entire election a fraud and made Hayes the winner because the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate.
Congress appointed more tabulators to recount the ballots in the disputed states. When the recount was done, it was found that Tilden won one of the disputed states and Hayes won the other two. This made Hayes the winner.
Why do most historians claim a deal was made in the 1876 presidential election?
Most historians claim this because Hayes' first action was to pull U.S. troops out of the South because he considered the nation unified by 1877.
Most historians claim this because Hayes made Tilden his Secretary of State
Most historians claim this because Hayes did not want to be president at the time. He conceded the job to Tilden.
Most historians claim this because Hayes endorsed all Democrats in states that also had governorships up for re-election in Southern states.
The United States has had other disputed presidential elections in the past, where the winner of the popular vote did not win enough votes in the Electoral College to become president. The most recent one was the presidential election of __________?
1988
1996
2000
2016
Advocates of a "New South" wanted Southern states to focus on _____________?
a white supremacist empire in the South
making a strong industrial economy
getting members of the Ku Klux Klan elected to Congress
giving African Americans "40 acres and a mule"
Many African Americans got caught into a system where they were trapped because they could not leave until all their debts were paid in full. What was this financial condition called?
Crop lien
Sharecropper
tenant farming
Debt peonage
An economic depression hit the United States beginning in ________ when a series of bad investments forced dozens of banks to close.
1872
1873
1874
1875
Who won the popular vote in the presidential election of 1876?
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
Horace Greeley
In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes won the Electoral College after he ________?
Threatened to sue the U.S. government over the lack of security at voting places
Beat Tilden in a run-off election
Was awarded the electoral votes of the states' with disputed results
Bribe the electors from the disputed states
What is a tenant farmer and who were tenant farmers after the Civil War?
Tenant farmers were the owners of plantations. It refers to white southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and got their plantations back after the Civil War.
Tenant farmers were those politicians who were corrupt. It refers to the politicians who were caught in scandals during Grant's second term.
Tenant farmers were Union soldiers who remained in the South after Reconstruction was over. It refers to those soldiers that wanted to become southerners after the war.
Tenant farmers were people who did not own their own land. It refers to those ex-slaves who could not afford to buy the land they lived on.
