APUSH Chapter 15 Quiz

The elections of 1876

the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected

Black sharecropping

was a very common occupation of former slaves

The Freedmen’s Bureau

distributed food to millions of Southern Blacks

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

fired Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War

The fifteenth amendment death with the issue of

suffrage

The “redeemer” governments of the South

were so named when Democrats took back control of the government

The Panic of 1873

was the nation’s worst economic depression to that time.

During Reconstruction, the term “scalawags” referred to

Southern white Republicans

During Reconstruction, most “Carpetbaggers” were

Northern white veterans who moved to the South

Jim Crows laws

imposed a system of state-supposed segregation

President Abraham Lincoln’s “10%” plan for the South referred to the

number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting a state government

Grandfather Laws established that

men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching

Among other ideas, Booker T Washington

favored industrial over classical education

The fourteenth amendment

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States

The Wade-Davis Bill

sought to bring the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

designed to give whites control over freedmen

Advocates of the “New South”

promoted southern industry and railroad development

The Supreme Court ruled in Pressy v. Ferguson (1896)

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations”