Ch 16 L 3 & 4

Front

Why does The Reconstruction period end with the presidential election of 1876?

Back

It was a tie for the presidency occured and a deal was made: a Republican president in exchange for military withdrawal from the South

Front

_____ is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land

Back

Sharecropping

Front

Which of the following is true about sharecropping: Sharecropping favored the freedmen. Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping. Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty. Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

Back

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty.

Front

Terrorist organization created which used violence and intimidation of violence to prevent freedmen and Republicans from voting or advocating for equality

Back

Ku Klux Klan

Front

What was the South's main economic activity after Reconstruction?

Back

still single cash crop: cotton

Front

Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities after Reconstruction

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Jim Crow

Front

How did Southern States get around the 15th Amendment which barred states from denying people the right to vote based on previous condition of servitude or religion?

Back

poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses

Front

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls intending to deny voting rights.

Back

Literacy Tests

Front

What were poll taxes?

Back

payments to poll workers required to be allowed to vote

Front

What Supreme Court case ruled in 1890 that "separate but equal," was legal and thus legalized the Jim Crow laws in the South?

Back

Plessy vs. Ferguson