Failures of Reconstruction

Question 1

Read this excerpt from an 1882 contract, and then answer the question. From whose point of view is this contract written?

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A: a land owner’s

Question 2

Which of the following were negative things experienced by African Americans living under the sharecropping system? Check all of the boxes that apply.

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A: Sharecropping created a cycle of debt.; C: Many sharecroppers felt tied to their farms.; D: Laws made it difficult for sharecroppers to sell their own cotton.; F: Contracts and laws heavily favored landlords.

Question 3

Read this excerpt from the Supreme Court decision that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional, and then answer the question. According to this passage, what was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

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A: to protect against discrimination by the state government

Question 4

Read the Jim Crow-era law from Alabama. What is the main goal of this law?

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B: to separate African American diners from white diners

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