Reconstruction Check-In #2 Review

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System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops

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Sharecropping

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During Reconstruction, many southern states created Jim Crow Laws. Why did some people consider these laws unjust?

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They limited the rights of African Americans in the south.

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How did the Supreme Court make the fight against segregation more difficult with its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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It made segregation legal.

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What was the goal of groups like the Ku Klux Klan?

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To intimidate African-Americans from exercising their new Constitutional rights

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Which of the following is true about sharecropping during Reconstruction?
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Most southern states outlawed sharecropping/tenant farming.
Many freedmen were able to purchase homes through sharecropping/tenant farming.
Most sharecroppers remained in a cycle of poverty.
Many state governments offered loan programs for sharecropping farmers.

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Most sharecroppers remained in a cycle of poverty.

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How was sharecropping similar to slavery?

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Sharecroppers continued to live in poverty and were tied to the land.

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Which of the following were laws that limited people's rights during Reconstruction? black codes, fourteenth amendment, Compromise of 1850, Civil Rights Acts of 1866

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black codes

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The Supreme Court Case making it legal to segregate based on race as long as the conditions were "equal".

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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What does this photo say about how newly freed slaves were treated during Reconstruction? Options: The freedmen were embraced by the South following the Civil War. Groups such as the KKK attempted terrorize the freedman and wanted to limit their newly gained rights. Freedmen were provided more opportunities. Whites worked with African Americans to fix the problems of the South

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Groups such as the KKK attempted terrorize the freedman and wanted to limit their newly gained rights.

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What were Andrew Johnson's views regarding freedmen and African Americans?

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He did not want freedmen to have the right to vote, wanted to preserve white leadership in government, and opposed equal rights for African Americans.