T3, Unit 1: Reactions to Reconstruction

Doctor McCollum was a member of the Klan, but African Americans liked him anyway. Why?

• He gave medical care to African Americans

• He escaped from the Yankees

• They preferred Klan members to Northerners

• They did not know he was a Klan member

What is one reason why the Ku Klux Klan targeted the Freedmen's Bureau?

• Klan members thought the Freedmen's Bureau was stealing from farmers.

• Klan members did not believe African Americans should be educated.

• Klan members were carpetbaggers who wanted to change the south.

• Klan members wanted to stop the spread of racial violence across the south.

Why did the Klan attract many white Southerners after the Civil War?

• The Klan tapped into Southern anger and blamed the North for the South’s problems.

• The Klan supported Radical Reconstruction, which was popular among white Southerners.

• After the Civil War, social clubs like the Klan helped to rebuild the South

Who were the Redeemers?

• Northern conservatives who supported Reconstruction

• Conservative Republicans from the South who wanted power

• Conservative white Democrats who wanted to regain control over the South

In the late 1800s, how did the federal government respond to Southern attempts to limit African American voting?

• The US Army occupied Southern states to protect voting rights.

• The government failed to enforce laws against discrimination.

• Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to protect voting rights.

• The president vetoed legislation that limited African American voting rights.

How did the Supreme Court help the Redeemer agenda in 1883?

• The court struck down much of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

• The court struck down portions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

• The court ruled that discrimination in public places was illegal.

• The court approved new laws that gave power to wealthy planters.

Who was the winner of the disputed states in the Presidential election of 1876?

• Hayes

• Tilden

• Neither

Which statement most accurately describes the economic impact of sharecropping?

• The sharecropping system prevented landowners from making a profit.

• Sharecropping was an efficient system that freed laborers to work in new urban factories.

• Sharecropping made agriculture so profitable that the system is still used today.

• Sharecropping tied so many laborers to farming that it delayed industrial growth in the South.

In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that there was a difference between

• discrimination committed by governments and discrimination committed by individuals.

• public facilities operated for profit and public facilities operated by the government.

• voting laws that set up reasonable restrictions and voting laws based on race or ethnicity.

• businesses that provided transportation and businesses that provided entertainment.

Which of the following overturned the Civil Rights Act?

• passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

• an 1883 Supreme Court ruling

• passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

• the election of Rutherford B. Hayes