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HY 121 Midterm Review"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans. - correct answer
✔✔true
A "carpetbagger" is - correct answer ✔✔a northerner who settled in the South after the war.
All of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan were black. - correct answer ✔✔False
During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of
eligible African-Americans registered to vote. - correct answer ✔✔True
In 1866, the civil rights bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a
presidential veto. - correct answer ✔✔True
In consequence of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes - correct answer ✔✔ordered
federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina.
One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to - correct answer ✔✔ensure a fair and viable
system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success. - correct answer ✔✔False
Sharecropping - correct answer ✔✔allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop
divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 - correct answer ✔✔defined crimes that deprived citizens of
their civil and political rights as federal offenses, and under these laws President Grant sent federal
marshals to arrest hundreds of accused Klansmen.
, The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for
violation of what law? - correct answer ✔✔The Tenure of Office Act
The Reconstruction Act of March 1867 - correct answer ✔✔divided the South into five military districts
and called for creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
The victorious Republicans, the "Redeemers," claimed to have redeemed the white South from
corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control. - correct answer ✔✔False
Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president - correct answer ✔✔Andrew Johnson
The phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from - correct answer ✔✔Sherman's Field Order 15
"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw
materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution. - correct answer ✔✔True
According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to
regulate the nation's corporations. - correct answer ✔✔False
At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious. - correct
answer ✔✔False
In 1879, for the first time since the Civil War, the United States departed from the gold standard. -
correct answer ✔✔False
Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called
- correct answer ✔✔trusts
and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. -
correct answer ✔✔True
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