Reconstruction vocabulary quiz

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• Abolish slavery in all states

• Guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations and jury service

• Enforce women’s suffrage

• Limit presidential powers

The Redeemers were:

• Northern abolitionists who moved south after the Civil War

• Southern Democrats who sought to regain political power and restore white supremacy

• Radical Republicans pushing for black equality

• Freedmen seeking land

Rutherford B. Hayes became president in 1877 as part of the:

• Missouri Compromise

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction Act

The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended:

• The Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow laws

• Abolitionism

Jim Crow laws were designed to:

• End slavery

• Guarantee equal rights

• Enforce racial segregation in the South

• Raise taxes on the wealthy

A poll tax was used to:

• Raise revenue for schools

• Prevent poor African Americans from voting

• Support sharecroppers

• Fund public works

Integration is:

• The practice of separating races

• Bringing races together in schools and public life

• A method of farming

• A Reconstruction law

Sharecropping was:

• A farming system where farmers worked land for a share of the crop

• A way to purchase land from banks

• Government-owned farming

• Slave labor under another name

Tenant farming differed from sharecropping because:

• Tenants usually paid rent in cash or crops and had more independence

• Tenants owned their land

• Tenants were forced to work without pay

• Tenants worked only for the state

The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed to:

• Help freedmen gain rights

• Overthrow Radical Republican governments and intimidate African Americans

• Support women’s suffrage

• Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment