Author Question: The money question of the 1870s was the question concerning A) how to balance the federal budget ... (Read 14 times)

jman1234 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The money question of the 1870s was the question concerning

A) how to balance the federal budget without raising taxes.
B) whether or not to issue more paper money.
C) whether paper money should be green or yellow.
D) whether or not Jim Fisk should go to jail for attempting to corner the gold market.
E) how to spend the growing federal surplus.

Question 2

What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?

A) They were all universities that were established in response to the forced integration of Southern colleges implemented by the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
B) They were all predominantly black institutions that were established in the years immediately following the Civil War.
C) Established during the years of the Confederacy, they all closed their doors temporarily in the 1870s rather than admit blacks.
D) They were the locations of the first four chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
E) They were all founded and named in honor of famous African American generals of the Civil War era.