End of Reconstruction

Up until this point who was in charge in the South?

One of the reasons for believing in voter fraud is threats of violence at boting locations by a famous group pictured on left. What was their name?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

Rank these reasons in order from biggest to least that some Southerners supported the KKK.

Groups:

(a) Least important

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(b) A little important

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(c) Important

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(d) Most important

• Prevent former slaves from having rights

• Anger and frustratration over having their rights removed.

• Prevent African-Americans and whites who supported them from voting.

• Fear that African-Americans might become leaders and get back at slave owners

Put a rectangle around two complete phrases that show how sharecropping was often unfair.

What were two reasons why sharecroppers struggled to make enough money to buy their own farm?

• Bad weather

• So many farmers were selling cotton that it wasn't worth much at times

• Banks helped farmers keep planting cotton since is was a valuable cash crop

• Farmers could sell wheat or corn if they couldn't sell cotton.

An example of a Jim Crow law would be.....

• Blacks were not allowed in town after dark.

• Black children could be taken to work under a white business owner.

• Blacks had to eat in one part of a restaurant and whites would eat in another part

• Blacks and whites could choose where to sit in a theater

Answer explanation

Almost always the white areas were better than the areas for blacks. This might be for something as big as schools or as small as water fountains.

Poll taxes required people to pay a tax in order to vote. This upset which of the two groups the most?

• Poor whites

• Former Slave owners

• African-Americans

• Carpetbaggers

How come many freedmen could not read or write?

Which African-American leader in the video do you agree with most?

• Booker T. Washington - Education and hard work is the key to equality

• W.E.B. Dubois - Jim Crow laws and other segregation neds to be ended immediately in order for equality

• Ida B Wells - Leaders who are creating and enforcing unfair laws need to removed and punished in order to begin equality

Answer explanation

All of these were paths to equality and probably all paths needed to be taken at the same time. A hard task to accomplish. Any one of these answers will be accepted.

A​ ​ (a)   is a Northerner who came down South to take advantage of opportunities created by the North's control of the South. Some examples are: becoming local leaders and buying businesses Southerners couldn't afford. Southerners who supported the Northern Republicans were called ​ ​ (b)   and were considered traitors. They often supported the Union during the War

• carpetbagger(s)
• scalawag(s)
• freedman's bureau