AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTER 15 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTER 15 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Reconstruction - Answers - The effort to restore southern states to the Union and to redefine African Americans' place in American society—began before the Civil War ended. Radical Republicans - Answers - African Americans and ____________________________________ pushed the nation to finally realize the Declaration of Independence's promises that "all men were created equal" and had "certain, unalienable rights." Emancipation Proclamation - Answers - Initially proposed as a war aim, Lincoln's ______________________________________ committed the United States to the abolition of slavery. - However, it freed only slaves in areas of rebellion and left more than 700,000 in bondage in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri as well as Union-occupied areas of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia. John Wilkes Booth - Answers - Reconstruction changed when ________________________________________ shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at the Ford Theater. Treated rapidly and with all possible care, Lincoln succumbed to his wounds the following morning, leaving a somber pall over the North and especially among African Americans. Andrew Johnson - Answers - The assassination of Abraham Lincoln propelled Vice President _____________________________ into the executive office in April 1865. - A states' rights, strict-constructionist and unapologetic racist from Tennessee, offered southern states a quick restoration into the Union. - His Reconstruction plan required provisional southern governments to void their ordinances of secession, repudiate their Confederate debts, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. Thirteenth Amendment - Answers - To cement the abolition of slavery, Congress passed the _____________________________________ on January 31, 1865. - Legally abolished slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." - Section Two granted Congress the "power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." - State ratification followed, and by the end of the year the requisite three-fourths states had approved the amendment, and four million people were forever free from the slavery that had existed in North America for 250 years.4 Black Codes - Answers - South Carolina and Mississippi passed laws known as ___________________________ to regulate black behavior and impose social and economic control. - These laws granted some rights to African Americans, like the right to own property, to marry or to make contracts. - Denied fundamental rights. White lawmakers forbade black men from serving on juries or in state militias, refused to recognize black testimony against white people, apprenticed orphan children to their former masters, and established severe vagrancy laws. - Effectively criminalized black leisure, limited their mobility, and locked many into exploitative farming contracts. Thaddeus Stevens - Answers - US Republican Congressman who believed in racial equality. - The last ember of hope for land redistribution was extinguished when ____________________________ and Charles Sumner's proposed land reform bills were tabled in Congress. Fourteenth Amendment - Answers - The House of Representatives approved this on June 13, 1866. - Section One granted citizenship and repealed the Taney Court's infamous Dred Scott (1857) decision. - It ensured that state laws could not deny due process or discriminate against particular groups of people. - Signaled the federal government's willingness to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states. - Guaranteed women's suffrage. Ulysses S. Grant - Answers - In the 1868 Presidential election, former Union General ________________________ ran on a platform that proclaimed, "Let Us Have Peace" in which he promised to protect the new status quo. Congressional Reconstruction Acts - Answers - Through the provisions of the ____________________________________________________, black men voted in large numbers and also served as delegates to the state constitutional conventions in 1868. - Black delegates actively participated in revising state constitutions. - One of the most significant accomplishments of these conventions was the establishment of a public school system. Hiram Revels - Answers - At the federal level, _________________________ and Blanche K. Bruce were chosen as United States Senators from Mississippi. P.B.S. Pinchback - Answers - Served as Louisiana's Governor for thirty-four days after the previous governor was suspended during impeachment proceedings and was the only African American state governor until Virginia elected L. Douglass Wilder in 1989. Special Field Order No. 15 - Answers - General William T. Sherman issued ___________________________ in which land in Georgia and South Carolina was to be set aside as a homestead for the freedpeople. Freedmen's Bureau - Answers - One of the main purposes of the ______________________________, however, was to redistribute lands to former slaves that had been abandoned and confiscated by the federal government. - Even these land grants were short lived. In 1866, land that ex-Confederates had left behind was reinstated to them. - Commissioner General Oliver O. Howard went to Edisto Island to inform the black population there of the policy change. - The black commission's response was that "we were promised Homesteads by the government . . . You ask us to forgive the land owners of our island . . .The man who tied me to a tree and gave me 39 lashes and who stripped and flogged my mother and my sister . . . that man I cannot well forgive. Does it look as if he has forgiven me, seeing how he tries to keep me in a condition of helplessness?" Oliver O. Howard - Answers - Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner. - He went to Edisto Island to inform the black population there of the policy change. - The black commission's response was that "we were promised Homesteads by the government . . . You ask us to forgive the land owners of our island . . .The man who tied me to a tree and gave me 39 lashes and who stripped and flogged my mother and my sister . . . that man I cannot well forgive. Does it look as if he has forgiven me, seeing how he tries to keep me in a condition of helplessness?" Booker T. Washington - Answers - He famously described the situation, "it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn." Fifteenth Amendment - Answers - Guaranteed women's suffrage.