US_Ch3_Homework-2

=**U.S. History Chapter 3 Homework #1**= Answer the following on notebook paper.

1. What grade would you give A. Johnson? Why?

2. What grade would you give Grant? Why?

3. What was Reconstruction?

4. Johnson was the first president to be (A) made president due to the death of predecessor (B) war veteran (C) from the South (D) impeached (E) all (F) none

5. How did President Grant fight for black equality? (A) defeated Lee for President (B) freed the slaves (C) went after the KKK (D) allowed them to help fight the Indians (E) all (F) none

6. Which group gained control in the South and didn’t enforce civil rights laws? (A) rebel army (B) Redeemer Democrats (C) Liberal Republicans (D) Radical Republicans (E) all (F) none

7. What existed in the South in terms of legalities that showed the South didn’t want to reform? (A) Black Codes (B) slavery (C) non-abolitionists (D) Confederate soldiers (E) all (F) none

8. Why did it take until the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King to get Civil Rights legislation? (A) Redeemer Democrats kept control (B) the North was unwilling to give blacks equality (C) the South kept fighting the Civil War (D) Republicans passed a civil rights bill in 1875 but the South wouldn’t enforce it and it got declared unconstitutional (E) all (F) none

9. Why were Southern troops being taken out of the South in the 1870s? (A) Reconstruction ended (B) the public was against reconstruction (C) Indian battles in the west (D) they weren’t

10. The term lobbyist came from the Grant administration. What does a lobbyist do today?

11. How was Reconstruction almost as big of a crisis as the Civil War?

12. Why are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments called the Civil War Amendments?

13. Why was John Deere’s plow an important invention?

14. Why was hydraulic mining an important innovation?

15. What had the __biggest__ impact on the growth of the West? (A) mineral deposits found (B) war with Indians won (C) numerous acres for ranches (D) railroads (E) all (F) none

16. How did this (your answer for #15) impact the other ways of life in the West?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">17. What was often the biggest source of conflict between whites and the Indians? (A) money (B) land (C) food (D) control (E) all (F) none

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">18. Which negative character trait was the downfall of George Armstrong Custer? (A) arrogance (B) ignored superiors (C) inflexible (D) picked his nose (E) all (F) none

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">19. Who was the Nez Perce chief who didn’t want to see his tribe massacred so surrendered? (A) Red Cloud (B) Sitting Bull (C) Joseph (D) Geronimo (E) all (F) none

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">20. Was the Dawes Act a success or failure? Why?

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