Failure of Reconstruction

Front

How did carpetbaggers harm the Reconstruction Period?

Back

With damage caused by their greed and corruption

Front

What was the biggest change made by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in 1874?

Back

They stopped funding Reconstruction legislation.

Front

When did the sharecropping and tenant farming systems take shape?

Back

in the decades after the Civil War

Front

Which of the following was a common characteristic of both sharecropping and tenant farming?
Options:
both sharecroppers and tenant farmers worked on wheat farms in the Upper Midwest,
both sharecroppers and tenant farmers employed white labor only,
both sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not own land

Back

both sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not own land

Front

Sharecropping agreements were written in such a way that generally favored which of the following: Sharecroppers, Landlords, Freedmen?

Back

Landlords

Front

Sharecropping practice of debt peonage was against the law, but state laws enforced it.

Back

True

Front

Compromise of 1877 removed _________ from the South which left African American unprotected.

Back

federal troops

Front

Freedmen who rented land from the landowner but provided own tools, seeds work animals and other provisions and therefore paid less in the form of their crops.

Back

Tenant farming

Front

A system in which African Americans rented a plot of land, cabin, work animals, seeds and tools from a landowner and made payments to the landowner with a certain percentage of the crop they grew, usually a third or half.

Back

Sharecropper

Front

What was the purpose of the Compromise of 1877?

Back

To end Reconstruction in the South