Failures of Reconstruction Answers

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Who can be held responsible if a passenger fails to sit in the proper area?

only conductors

only passengers

only the railroad company

the railroad, conductors, and passengers

According to the political cartoon, Reconstruction is worse than slavery because

Jim Crow laws limit the rights of African Americans.

vigilante violence threatens the lives and freedoms of African Americans.

Sharecropping traps African Americans in a cycle of debt.

According to the article, what happens when masked, armed mobs threaten members of Southern society?

Lawmen have difficulty identifying the lawbreakers.

African Americans are forced to fight back.

No one, white or African American, dares to stand up to them.

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