The Successes and Failures of Reconstruction - Unit 2

Multiple Choice

How did the Freedmen's Bureau support the transition for freed people after the Civil War?

• By providing land ownership

• By offering critical services like food, shelter, education, and medical care

• By encouraging migration to the North

• By establishing new political parties

Open Ended

Explain how the cycle of debt in sharecropping affected economic opportunities for freedmen and poor whites.

Open Ended

What do you notice in the graph when Reconstruction comes to an end in the late 1870s?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements accurately describes the difference between carpetbaggers and scalawags?

• Carpetbaggers were Southern Democrats; scalawags were Northern Republicans.

• Carpetbaggers were Northerners seeking opportunities in the South; scalawags were Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.

• Carpetbaggers were freed slaves; scalawags were landowners.

• Carpetbaggers supported Jim Crow laws; scalawags opposed Reconstruction.

Multiple Select

Which of the following were consequences of the Compromise of 1877?

• Loss of political gains for African Americans

• Restoration of white Democratic control

• Expansion of federal support for Reconstruction

• End of Reconstruction era