Reconstruction Era QUIZS

What was the main goal of Jim Crow laws and practices?

• To keep white people and African Americans separate in public places

• To keep white people and African Americans together in all areas of society

• To prevent laws from being passed that would hurt African Americans

What was one reason sharecropping was considered a new form of slavery?

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not allowed to leave the farms for any reason.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, were not granted land of their own by the government or landowner.

• The farmers, who were mostly former slaves, usually owed money to the landowner and had to keep working for them.

The Reconstruction era started in what year?

• 1862

• 1865

• 1965

• 1877

_______ were Northerners that moved south after the war.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawag

• Citizens

• Amendments

The 15th amendment granted _______ rights to African American men.

• Voting

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

What was the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to provide electricity and help control floods in Tennessee

• to create jobs by building roads and bridges in the South

• to provide housing and medical care to former slaves

How did the system of sharecropping work during Reconstruction?

• The government took land away from plantation owners and gave it to former slaves.

• Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew.

• The government paid landowners who were willing to hire poor farmers in search of work.

What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws passed in many southern states?

• to create segregated public schools

• to outlaw the practice of sharecropping

• to help pay for Westward Expansion

Which of the following would have been a typical Jim Crow law?

• a law forcing citizens to vote in every election

• a law requiring libraries to allow African American and white children to check out books

• a law requiring African American and white children to attend different schools

Which of the following was founded by the U.S. government to provide housing, medical care, and education to former, enslaved people and poor white people in the South during Reconstruction?

• The Former Slaves Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• The American Red Cross