Reconstruction in Practice and the Move West Study Guide

Question 1

Who won the election of 1868?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 2

This animal formed the basis of Native American Life?

Accepted Answer

The bison

Question 3

Peace Commission is established and Native Americans are promised large reservations

Accepted Answer

1860s

Question 4

Famous buffalo hunter who shot buffalo to feed the railroad workers?

Accepted Answer

Buffalo Bill (William Cody)

Question 5

Who ruled the five military districts that Congress divided the South into?

Accepted Answer

Northern Generals

Question 6

What was the idea behind boarding schools and other government institutions to handle Natives?

Accepted Answer

To destroy Native culture and make them "civilized" or white

Question 7

Who was given a raise during the salary grab scandal?

Accepted Answer

Supreme Court, President, Congress

Question 8

Between which two areas was the second mining boom?

Accepted Answer

Rocky Mountains & Sierra Nevada

Question 9

How many bison roamed the Great Plains at the end of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

15 million

Question 10

Who won the Election of 1876?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 11

Laws passed in the South promoting segregation

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 12

Began to move onto the 1st reservations as people move to Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, California

Accepted Answer

1850s

Question 13

Divided up reservation lands to give to individual Native American families

Accepted Answer

Dawes Act

Question 14

What are the favors given to Southerners for allowing Hayes to become President?

Accepted Answer

Southern Democrats would control local patronage, At least 1 Southerner must be in the Cabinet, Federal troops must leave the South, Hayes would support generous spending in the South

Question 15

Which is true of the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Accepted Answer

A fight broke out and more than 200 unarmed were killed, Mostly women, children, and elderly were killed, Took place in South Dakota

Question 16

Which event greatly reduced the bison population on the great plains

Accepted Answer

People coming from the East to hunt them for sport, A commercial method of treating skins was invented

Question 17

Who made up the Electoral Commission to decide the winner?

Accepted Answer

Representatives, Senators, Supreme Court Justices

Question 18

Chief Joseph belonged to which tribe?

Accepted Answer

Nez Perces

Question 19

TorF: As the traditional way of life dies Native Americans turned to the federal govt. for help

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Which is true of the Southern state conventions?

Accepted Answer

Grant Black Suffrage, Make new laws for the orphaned and handicapped, Call for free public schools, Bar Confederates from office

Question 21

A former thriving community that is dead today?

Accepted Answer

Ghost Town

Question 22

Did President Johnson's articles of impeachment pass?

Accepted Answer

No, it failed by one vote

Question 23

Gold was unexpectedly discovered here and tensions flared between Natives and the govt. again

Accepted Answer

Black Hills

Question 24

Who passed the Homestead Act?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 25

Which events led to the Panic of 1873?

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Growth of railroads & factories strained financial market, 2 major fires in Boston and Chicago, A major investment firm collapsed causing a panic

Question 26

Where was Chief Joseph trying to get on his epic escape?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 27

What other jobs did homesteaders do to supplement their income?

Accepted Answer

Railroad workers, Lumberjacks, Farm Laborers

Question 28

Which is not one of the key players in the new southern governments?

Accepted Answer

Confederate leaders and generals

Question 29

Which is a challenge of farming the Great Plains?

Accepted Answer

Swarms of crop eating insects, Proximity to other people, Few Trees, Harsh weather

Question 30

System of farming used after slavery ended, where people lived on the land & paid rent in crop

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 31

Who was the Republican Candidate for President in 1876?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 32

New southern states initially denied who the right to vote right after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Former Confederate leaders

Question 33

The first of the scandals of President Grant. Involved the building of the railroad.

Accepted Answer

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Question 34

During the age of the cattle kingdom, cattle were what?

Accepted Answer

Free range (not fenced or contained)

Question 35

The major outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson case was?

Accepted Answer

Segregation is fine, "Separate but equal"

Question 36

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

Accepted Answer

He broke the Tenure of Office Act, The Radical Republicans didn't like him

Question 37

Which was not one of the requirements of the Homestead Act?

Accepted Answer

You had to pay for the land

Question 38

What causes the scandal in the Election of 1876?

Accepted Answer

Multiple electoral college returns showing different winners

Question 39

Two famous Sioux chiefs who attempted to hold back white settlers?

Accepted Answer

Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull

Question 40

Who was the Democratic candidate for President in 1876?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Tilden

Question 41

Who were the two candidates in the election of 1868?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican), Horatio Seymour (Democrats)

Question 42

What invention evened the playing field between Plains Native Americans and Europeans?

Accepted Answer

The "six shooter" revolver

Question 43

Government’s policy is to push eastern Native Americans west across the Mississippi

Accepted Answer

1820s

Question 44

What did the second wave of mining help to create a need for?

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 45

General Custer got trapped near the Little Big Horn River and all of his men were killed where?

Accepted Answer

Montana

Question 46

What was the primary (biggest) contribution of the railroads?

Accepted Answer

Encouraging people to move to the area

Question 47

The Whiskey Frauds were a conspiracy between distillers and whom?

Accepted Answer

Treasury Officials

Question 48

The first cowboys/cattle ranchers were of what descent?

Accepted Answer

Mexican

Question 49

What led to the end of the cattle kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Fencing/land ownership, Weather related disasters

Question 50

Which invention helped the farming explode and cattle kingdom end?

Accepted Answer

Barbed Wire fences

Question 51

T or F: The Native American culture required large areas of land for small groups

Accepted Answer

True

Question 52

Which is a challenge of the Homestead act?

Accepted Answer

Had to break the ground, Had to dig a well, It cost about a $1000 to get started, Had to fence your property

Question 53

What was the primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

Accepted Answer

To intimidate former slaves and prevent them from voting

Question 54

How large of plots of land were you given under the Homestead Act?

Accepted Answer

1 Quarter, 160 Acres

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