Failures of Reconstruction

Question 1

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans usually involved

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employing terror and intimidation.

Question 2

In the 1870s, the system of sharecropping failed to

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stimulate and grow the Southern economy.

Question 3

Which statement best describes the federal government’s response to racial violence in the South in the late 1800s?

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The federal government had no response because it had pulled troops out of the South in 1877, leaving African Americans unprotected.

Question 4

In response to Reconstruction, people who believed the white race is superior to people of other races formed ___________ groups.

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white supremacy

Question 5

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.

Question 6

Which statement best describes Jim Crow laws?

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They restricted the rights of African Americans.

Question 7

To combat Reconstruction reforms, some Southerners organized

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white supremacy groups.

Question 8

Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping?

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Sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in Southern society.

Question 9

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.

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