Failures of Reconstruction

Question 1

Which statement best describes a consequence of Reconstruction policies during the 1870s?

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Reconstruction-era policies often failed to protect African Americans from racial violence and safeguard their political rights.

Question 2

Which statement best describes Jim Crow laws?

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They restricted the rights of African Americans.

Question 3

During Reconstruction in the South, poll taxes were used to

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deny African American citizens participation in government.

Question 4

In the 1870s, the system of sharecropping failed to

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stimulate and grow the Southern economy.

Question 5

What was one reason sharecropping began in the South?

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Landowners needed laborers, and freed slaves needed work. ✓ Correct

Question 6

In the South during Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1875

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was rarely enforced.

Question 7

What guaranteed equal access to public facilities regardless of race?

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the 1875 Civil Rights Act

Question 8

With the exception of white Southern Republicans, how did white Southern society react to Reconstruction?

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They were opposed to it, often violently.

Question 9

To combat Reconstruction reforms, some Southerners organized

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white supremacy groups.

Question 10

If a sharecropper's portion of the harvest paid too little to cover loans from the beginning of the season, the sharecropper would begin the next season

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already in debt.

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