Failures of Reconstruction

Question 1

What was one reason sharecropping began in the South?

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

Question 2

What guaranteed equal access to public facilities regardless of race?

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the 1875 Civil Rights Act

Question 3

In the years after the Civil War, Southern society most valued

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land ownership.

Question 4

The Supreme Court ruling on the civil rights cases of 1883

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opened the door for legal segregation and discrimination in the US.

Question 5

During Reconstruction in the South, poll taxes were used to

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deny African American citizens participation in government.

Failures of Reconstruction Answers