Exploring the End of Reconstruction

What event marked the end of the Reconstruction era?

• The election of 1876

• The founding of the NAACP

• The Civil War

• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

What was the main promise Rutherford B. Hayes made to Southern Democrats in the Compromise of 1877?

• To support civil rights movements

• To implement Jim Crow Laws

• To remove federal troops from the South

• To increase taxes

What did Jim Crow Laws primarily enforce?

• Economic equality

• Racial segregation

• Gender equality

• Religious freedom

What system did African Americans work under that resembled slavery?

• Industrial labor

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

• Sharecropping

What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• Segregation was unconstitutional

• Segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment if facilities were equal

• Voter suppression laws were illegal

• All forms of segregation were to be abolished

What were African Americans forced to pass in order to vote?

• Citizenship tests

• Literacy tests

• Medical examinations

• Background checks

Which amendment was supposed to protect African Americans' right to vote?

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

What legal loophole allowed white people to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes?

• Legacy clauses

• Grandfather clauses

• Citizenship clauses

• Heritage clauses

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

What was the primary focus of Booker T. Washington's advocacy?

• Immediate end to segregation

• Education and gradual acceptance by white society

• Armed resistance

• Political office candidacy