Question | Answer |
Withdrew the last federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Amendment which ended slavery | 13th |
Amendment which allowed African American men to vote | 15th |
Amendment which made African Americans citizens | 14th |
Law divided the Southern states into five military districts | Reconstruction Acts of 1867 |
Laws which took away the rights of blacks in the South during the Reconstruction Era | Black Codes |
Number of votes needed to elect a president in the Electoral College | majority--one over half |
System which allowed a president to appoint to office his most loyal supporters | Spoils System |
System in which the best qualified people are placed in appointed offices | Merit System |
President who first used the Merit System | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Connected the east and the west in 1869 | transcontinental railroad |
House of Congress which impeaches a president | House of Representatives |
Meaning of to impeach | To bring charges against |
House of Congress which tries a president after he is impeached--they determine guilt or innocence | Senate |
Two American presidents who have been impeached==neither were found guilty | Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton |
How electoral votes are determined for each state | Equal to the total number of senators and representatives a state has |
Least number of electoral votes per state | Three |
All presidents between 1861 and 1881 belonged to this political party | Republican Party |
Invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
Purchased Alaska from Russia | Secretary of State William Seward |
What the United States paid for Alaska | $7,200,000 |
Invented the light bulb | Thomas Edison |
Founded the Knights of Labor | Uriah Stephens |
The United States' first labor union | Knights of Labor |
Organized the Grange | Oliver H. Kelly |
Organization which helped teach farmers new agricultural methods | The Grange |
Proposed the 10% Plan | Abraham Lincoln |
The Electoral Commission's decision allowed him to win the Election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Won the presidency by one vote | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Was saved from being kicked out of the presidency by one vote | Andrew Johnson |
A split in the Republican Party helped him win the 1860 Election | Abraham Lincoln |
Reconstruction president who served two full terms | Ulysses S. Grant |
1872 Democratic candidate who died before Electoral College met | Horace Greeley |