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During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen’s Bureau

helped African Americans relocate from the South to the North.

administered poll taxes and literacy tests during elections.

negotiated labor contracts between laborers and employers.

segregated white and African American students in schools.

Fading support for Reconstruction was caused in part by

Ulysses S. Grant’s election to a second term in office.

a Democratic candidate becoming president in 1868.

accusations of bribery against the Grant administration.

Republican attacks on African American voting rights.

During the late 1800s, the Union League was focused on

uniting Northern and Southern workers in unions.

driving all the carpetbaggers out of the South.

the public education of children in the South.

African American involvement in government.

In 1883, several civil rights cases came before the Supreme Court that were related to

freedom of speech and the Ku Klux Klan.

land ownership for Southern sharecroppers.

discrimination in public facilities.

voting, poll taxes, and literacy tests.

The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment led to

a ban on giving literacy tests to people in the southern states so they could vote.

more African Americans being elected to all levels of government.

the establishment of grandfather clauses that helped African Americans in the voting booth.

poll taxes being outlawed because they were discriminatory.

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