APUSH Chapter 15 Vocabulary Quiz

What was the main purpose of the Ten Percent Plan proposed by Abraham Lincoln?

• To punish Southern states

• To allow Southern states to rejoin the Union

• To abolish slavery in the North

• To increase taxes on Southern states.

The Wade-Davis Bill required what percentage of a state's white males to take a loyalty oath?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states to restrict the rights and mobility of newly freed African Americans, often forcing them into ________ contracts.

• labor

• marriage

• trade

• education

What was the primary purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

• To provide food, housing, education, and legal aid to formerly enslaved people and poor whites

• To enforce voting rights

• To establish new states

• To create new laws.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was significant because it was the first federal law defining ________.

• Voting rights

• Citizenship

• State boundaries

• Taxation

What did the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee?

• Freedom of speech

• Equal protection under the law

• The right to bear arms

• Freedom of religion

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 focused on rebuilding the South and integrating freed slaves into society. It saw major political and social changes but ended with the ________.

• Civil War

• Compromise of 1877

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Bill of Rights

What did the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?

• Denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• Denying voting rights based on gender

• Denying voting rights based on age

• Denying voting rights based on property ownership.

The America Woman Suffrage Association was led by Lucy Stone and supported the ________ Amendment.

• Fifteenth

• Nineteenth

• First

• Twenty-sixth

What is sharecropping?

• A) A system where freedmen and poor whites farmed land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.

• B) A network of political organizations that educated Black voters.

• C) Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.

• D) Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.