Chapter 15

Which amendment banned slavery and forced labor?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

What was the name for northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political careers?

• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• Hiram Revels
• Critics

True or False:
Most sharecropper eventually made enough money to buy land of their own.

• True
• False

What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

• Help freedmen find jobs
• Impeach President Johnson
• Enforce the 15th amendment
• Terrorize African Americans

How did the Supreme Court make the fight against segregation more difficult with its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• By approving the concept of "separate but equal."
• By requiring Plessy to pay a large fine.
• By supporting the sharecroppers.
• By ruling in favor of Plessy.

What was the name for northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political careers?

• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• Hiram Revels
• Critics

Which amendment gave African American males the right to vote by forbidding states to deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

Which amendment gave all people born or naturalized in the United States, except most Native Americans equal protection of the law?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

What was a disadvantage of the Wade-Davis bill?

• It only required 10 percent of a state's voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
• It might have angered the Southerns by not allowing former Confederate soldiers to vote.

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

• punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

• punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

• to secede from the Union

• to reinstate the practice of slavery