Reassessment Unit 2: Reconstruction Backlash

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Which Constitutional Amendment made slavery illegal?

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13

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Which amendment gave voting rights to all men? Options: 13, 14, 15, 16

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15

Front

What was the decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

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Racial segregation did not violate the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment

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After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to

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maintain a cheap labor supply

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Literacy tests and poll taxes were created mainly to

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limit the number of African Americans qualified to vote

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The right to vote is also known as what?

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Suffrage

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A type of farming in which a farmer rents a piece of land and receives supplies from a landlord in exchange for a share of the crops and profits is known as what?

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Sharecropping

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The condition of Sharecroppers who became trapped on their property and couldn't pay their debts was known as what?

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Debt Peonage

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What terrorist group would become the most prominent form of resistance to the policies of Reconstruction?

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Klu Klux Klan

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Farmers (former slaves) that worked the plantations and shared a large portion of the crop they harvested with the land owner, keeping the farmer poor.

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Sharecropper