Reconstruction Era Quiz

What derogatory term was used by angry southerners to describe other southerners who were sympathetic or helpful towards the northerners and federal government during Reconstruction?

• Scalawag

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Sharecropping

• Debt Peonage

Who was the 1st Black U.S. Congress person who took over Jefferson Davis' old Senate seat held before the southern succession?

• Scalawag

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Sharecropping

• Debt Peonage

What type of farming involved Freedmen renting small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, often resulting in falling into financial debt?

• Scalawag

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Sharecropping

• Debt Peonage

What term describes the situation when Freedmen fell into debt to the landowner through sharecropping and could not leave the land until the debt was paid?

• Scalawag

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Sharecropping

• Debt Peonage

What racist white terror group was created during the Reconstruction era in the south to terrorize black American families through violence and intimidation?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Taxes

What were given at the voting booth before a Freedman could vote, with the intention of keeping them from exercising their right to vote?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Taxes

What rule for literacy tests allowed illiterate white people to still vote regardless of failing the literacy test?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Taxes

What was the tax on voting used in hopes of keeping Freedmen from voting?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Taxes

What laws passed in the south after Reconstruction segregated public spaces based on race?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Nadir

What term describes separating the public based on race?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Nadir