Supremacy Movements

Question 1

How did the Panic of 1873 influence Northern attitudes toward Reconstruction?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Northerners did not want to spend any more on Reconstruction.

Question 2

How did Democrats seize power from Republicans in the South?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They used the issue of race to unite white Southerners.

Question 3

Why did the commission award Hayes the disputed electoral votes and the 1876 election?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The commission voted along party lines.

Question 4

What is the main idea of Hayes’s statement?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He will work to unite the interests of North and South.

Question 5

Who were the Redeemers?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Conservative white Democrats who wanted to regain control over the South

Question 6

How did Redeemer rule affect the lives of African Americans in the South?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They devised ways to prevent African Americans from being free and equal.

Question 7

Why did Republicans begin to lose power in the 1870s?Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Their supporters argued among themselves.; They were attacked for being corrupt.

Supremacy Movements Answers