SW Quiz 16

1. What did Andrew Johnson do as president?

• a. punished the rebels
• b. took senators to court
• c. educated African Americans
• d. created a plan for Reconstruction

2. In what organization did Joseph Rainey become the first African American member?

• a. the Senate
• b. the Supreme Court
• c. the executive branch
• d. the House of Representatives

3. What was illegal for African American men?

• a. to be married
• b. to be wealthy
• c. to read and write
• d. to be unemployed

4. What is the term when someone lives and farms a plot of land and pays the rent with a part of the harvest?

• a. farm rents
• b. sharecropping
• c. harvest homes
• d. plantations

5. What program created roads, canals, railroads, and river ports?

• a. Interstate System
• b. American System
• c. Interstate Highways
• d. American Interstates

6. What did the completion of the transcontinental railroad symbolize according to the article?

• a. national unity
• b. hard work
• c. engineering genius
• d. wealth and prosperity

7. What did the Indian Appropriations Act force American Indian nations to do?

• a. appear in court
• b. join the U.S. army
• c. pay property taxes
• d. move to reservations

8. Select all that apply: Why did the Southern economy collapse after the Civil War? Choose all that apply.

• a. All men were imprisoned.
• b. The land was ruined by war.
• c. There was no free labor force.
• d. Cotton would no longer grow.
• e. Confederate dollars were worthless

9. True or false: American Indian tribes won lawsuits that forced the U.S. government to honor all treaties.

• True
• False

10. Who led the reconstruction of the South?

• a. Andrew Johnson
• b. Abraham Lincoln
• c. Franklin Roosevelt
• d. Grover Cleveland