Chapter 15 review questions
Vocabulary: define each of the following terms
Ten percent plan
Wade-Davis Bill
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Military Reconstruction Act
Freedman’s Bureau
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Sharecropping
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Whiskey Ring
Tammany Hall
Chapter 15 review questions
Panic of ‘73
Compromise of 1877
Answer the following with a short answer using complete sentences:
1) How did Lincoln and Johnson differ with the Radicals concerning the ultimate responsibility for
Reconstruction?
2) How did the 14th amendment provide for a way for the central government to extend its power
over state and local government? Which amendment did it contradict?
3) Which of the ‘Reconstruction amendments’ abolish slavery? Which guaranteed voting rights?
Which guaranteed citizen rights?
4) Name at least 2 positive accomplishments of the Radical governments of the South. Why did
Southerners nonetheless resent these governments?
5) Give at least 2 reasons explaining why Grant was a poor president?
6) Why did 1 historian say of the presidential election of 1876 “that the Democrats stole the
election first and the Republicans stole it back”?
7) What was the effect of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Southern voting as a whole region?