Ch. 16-17 Review

Question 1

What did ranchers do to keep their cattle from getting mixed up with other cattle?

Accepted Answer

branded

Question 2

What type of veto allows the session of congress to expire wothout signing it into legislation?

Accepted Answer

pocket

Question 3

Who did Licoln tab as his Vise President in the 1864 election?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

Question 4

The name of the Reconstruction where the South was divided into 5 districts.

Accepted Answer

Military Reconstruction

Question 5

15th Amendment

Accepted Answer

gave Africcan Americans the right to vote

Question 6

What was the name of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

10% Plan

Question 7

What were the stray calves on the open range called?

Accepted Answer

mavericks

Question 8

A pardon to all Soutnerners who took an oath of loyalty to the U.S.

Accepted Answer

amnesty

Question 9

When the former rebel Southernstates were integrated back into the Union.

Accepted Answer

reconstruction

Question 10

What was the name of the group that opposed Lincoln's 10% Plan?

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Question 11

What was the name of the conflict between farmers and ranchers over barbed wire fences?

Accepted Answer

Range Wars

Question 12

The name of the of vast grasslands for grazing.

Accepted Answer

open range

Question 13

Breed of cattle that was found on the open range and was descendants of Spanish cattle.

Accepted Answer

longhorns

Question 14

What was invented that put an end to the open range?

Accepted Answer

barbed wire

Question 15

This act made it illegal for Johnson to fire any official without congress approval.

Accepted Answer

Tenure of Office Act

Question 16

Name of the miners that came to California in search of gold.

Accepted Answer

forty-niners

Question 17

Name of the bill that the Radical Republicans passed for Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 18

What was the offical name for panning for gold?

Accepted Answer

placer mining

Question 19

In the "New South" what type of economy did the South add?

Accepted Answer

industry

Question 20

13th Amendment

Accepted Answer

outlawed slavery

Question 21

Why was the 15th Amendment considered weak?

Accepted Answer

it didn't outlaw poll taxes or literacy tests

Question 22

14th Amendment

Accepted Answer

gave citizenship to African Americans

Question 23

Self appointed volunteers that kept the peace in a mining town.

Accepted Answer

vigilance committees

Question 24

A Union war hero that will win the Republican Presidency in 1868

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 25

John Wilkes Booth

Accepted Answer

assassinated Lincoln

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