The American YAWP Chapter 15 Quiz

What was the state of the South after the Civil War according to the introduction?

• It was thriving with new infrastructure.

• It lay in ruins with much destruction.

• It had advanced technologically.

• It was unaffected by the war.

What were the key concepts that Reconstruction's questions hinged on?

• Citizenship and equality

• Economy and trade

• Military and defense

• Agriculture and industry

Who pushed the nation to realize the Declaration of Independence's promises during Reconstruction?

• White Democrats

• African Americans and Radical Republicans

• Southern Confederates

• Northern Industrialists

What did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation commit the United States to?

• The expansion of the Union

• The abolition of slavery

• The establishment of new states

• The creation of a new constitution

What significant legal change did the Fourteenth Amendment bring about?

• Abolished slavery

• Granted citizenship to all American-born residents

• Established the right to vote for women

• Created the Supreme Court

Which infamous court decision was repealed by the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott

• Brown v. Board of Education

What was the main purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• To abolish slavery

• To guarantee birthright citizenship and equal protection of the laws

• To grant women the right to vote

• To establish a federal income tax

What action did President Johnson take regarding the Civil Rights Act?

• He supported it wholeheartedly

• He vetoed it

• He ignored it

• He signed it into law immediately

What was the outcome of the 1868 presidential election?

• Horatio Seymour won

• Ulysses S. Grant won

• Andrew Johnson was re-elected

• The election was inconclusive

What term was used to describe white Republicans in the South during Reconstruction?

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Abolitionists

• Confederates