Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

8th Grade

16 Qs

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Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

Assessment

Quiz

History

8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Karen Lewis

FREE Resource

16 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the years after the Civil War, Southern society most valued

infrastructure.

government.

entrepreneurship.

land ownership.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was one reason sharecropping began in the South?

It was a way to take advantage of the South’s strong infrastructure.

The federal government required Southerners to use this system.

Landowners needed laborers, and freed slaves needed work.

Farmers were the only Southerners who still had money after the Civil War.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which statement best describes the system of sharecropping?

Sharecropping offered formerly enslaved people an equal opportunity to participate in the Southern economy.

Sharecropping gave formerly enslaved people the upper hand in the agricultural South.

Sharecropping offered Northerners an opportunity to relocate to the South and start their own farms.

Sharecropping gave white landowners the upper hand and economic dominance in Southern society.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If a sharecropper's portion of the harvest paid too little to cover loans from the beginning of the season, the sharecropper would begin the next season

with a clean slate

already in debt

without help from the landowner.

by planting a different crop

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What guaranteed equal access to public facilities regardless of race?

the Thirteenth Amendment

the Fifteenth Amendment

the 1875 Civil Rights Act

the Jim Crow laws

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the South during Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1875

was rarely enforced.

was strictly enforced.

was criticized by Republicans.

was upheld by the Supreme Court.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which statement best describes Jim Crow laws?

They restricted the rights of white citizens.

They prevented the spread of segregation.

They guaranteed the rights of African Americans.

They restricted the rights of African Americans.

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