Author Question: The Alabama claims A. were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction. B. ... (Read 39 times)

james · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 18701871

A. gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan.

B. was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant.

C. was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.

D. allowed white Southerners to maintain a police state.

E. was designed to support the Black Codes.

Question 2

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

A. entered the White House with no political experience.

B. won a huge victory.

C. relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.

D. ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.

E. was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Question 3

During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired

A. Hawaii.

B. the Virgin Islands.

C. Puerto Rico.

D. Guam.

E. Alaska.

Question 4

Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president,

A. was fired by Grant for incompetence.

B. was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner.

C. opposed almost every one of Grant's policies.

D. was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.

E. None of these answers is correct.

Question 5

The Alabama claims

A. were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.

B. ended an experiment in black landownership.

C. saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War.

D. involved complaints by the United States against England.

E. marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority.