Exam 1: Reconstruction, 1863-1877

Andrew Johnson privately characterized his meeting with Frederick Douglass in hateful and racist language.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave states the option of enfranchising black males or losing seats in Congress.

Liberal Republicans

In 1883,the Supreme Court declared a civil rights law passed in 1875 as unconstitutional.

Grant is generally considered

In response to the Hamburg Massacre,President Grant

The Compromise of 1877 signified

Dissatisfied with Grant's administration,Liberal Republicans nominated _________________ for President in 1872.

The Panic of 1873 was primarily caused by which industry?

After the election of 1876 the Reconstruction Republican governments collapsed in the last two southern states,____________________ and ____________________.

The Tenure of Office Act

Blacks held office in many states throughout the South in numbers far exceeding their proportion of the population.

People in the North regarded the Fifteenth Amendment as resolving the last of the great issues of the war.

____________________ was a construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad that gave congressmen stock in return for land grants and loans from the government.