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

A
infrastructure.
B
government.
C
entrepreneurship.
D
land ownership.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans usually involved

A
blocking employment contracts.
B
filing lawsuits against sharecroppers.
C
employing terror and intimidation.
D
writing letters to members of Congress.
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Which statement best describes a consequence of Reconstruction policies during the 1870s?

A
Reconstruction-era policies successfully restored the economy in the South and gave African Americans new opportunities.
B
Reconstruction-era policies often failed to protect African Americans from racial violence and safeguard their political rights.
C
Reconstruction-era policies created ironclad laws that prohibited legal segregation, although illegal segregation often occurred.
D
Reconstruction-era policies failed to establish any civil rights legislation, which would not be written until the 1960s.
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In the 1870s, the system of sharecropping failed to

A
reincorporate the South into the United States.
B
provide landowners with a steady labor force.
C
return abandoned land to its former owners.
D
stimulate and grow the Southern economy.
5

Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping?

A
Sharecropping offered formerly enslaved people an equal opportunity to participate in the Southern economy.
B
Sharecropping gave formerly enslaved people the upper hand in the agricultural South.
C
Sharecropping offered Northerners an opportunity to relocate to the South and start their own farms.
D
Sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in Southern society.
6

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

A
The federal government kept the military in the South to stop racial violence until the expense became too great.
B
The federal government never sent troops to maintain order in the South in the years after the Civil War.
C
The federal government made the protection of African Americans in the South a top priority and maintained a military presence.
D
The federal government had no response because it had pulled troops out of the South in 1877, leaving African Americans unprotected.
7

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

A
with a clean slate.
B
already in debt.
C
without help from the landowner.
D
by planting a different crop.
9

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

A
farming
B
white supremacy
C
abolitionist
D
Union troop
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With the exception of white Southern Republicans, how did white Southern society react to Reconstruction?

A
They were opposed to it, often violently.
B
The embraced it cautiously.
C
They worked with African Americans to reverse it.
D
They appreciated the federal oversight.

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