End of Reconstruction Quizizz, Period One

End of Reconstruction Quizizz

Multiple Choice

Who were the Carpetbaggers?

• Men who tried to sell car ports to Southerners

• Men who sold defected carpets to southerners

• Southerners looking to make money off of Northerners

• Northerners looking to make money off of Southerners

Multiple Choice

Would a Scalawag support a former slave's right to vote?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Why did the Klan target Wyatt Outlaw?

• He was a respected councilman

• He had the audacity (rude/disrespectful behavior) to shoot at the Klan

• They had no other reason than the fact he was Black

• They wanted him to leave Alamance County

Multiple Choice

What did the Klan do to Wyatt Outlaw?

• dragged him from his bed

• hung him in front of the courthouse

• both answers

Multiple Choice

What did North Carolina Governor Holden do about Outlaw's lynching?

• nothing

• he met with the Klan to try to reason with them

• he declared Marshall Law in Alamance County

• he supported an insurrection

Multiple Choice

What was prompting an increase in activity by the Ku Kluz Klan?

• they opposed the 13th Amendment

• they did not want Blacks to run for office

• the recent decision to allow Blacks the right to vote

• they wanted to keep Alamance County all white

Multiple Choice

What did Governor Holden ask the North Carolina assembly to do?

• allow the KKK to intimidate African American voters

• expand the governor's power to fight against and capture the KKK

• to enable the assembly to suppress the governor's office

• build a new railroad

Multiple Choice

Why would the military leaving the South have a negative effect on African Americans?

• Groups like the KKK would work to strip African Americans of their new found rights

• There would be martial law imposed

• The military would refocus on the Northern African Americans to strip them of their rights

• There would be no negative effect for African Americans

Multiple Choice

What were the Slaughter-House Cases about?

• the use of physical violence against African Americans

• butchers in New Orleans who opposed a slaughterhouse monopoly

• animal rights activists trying to stop the inhumane treatment of animals

• Louisiana dictating private business policies

Multiple Choice

What did the Supreme Court say about the 13th Amendment in their decision in the Slaughter-House Cases?

• it only was to be used in federal cases

• it did not apply to butchers

• it was unconstitutional

• it only applied to former slaves

Multiple Choice

Who was Homer Plessy?

• an African American who refused to ride in the Black section of a train

• a White man who refused to give his seat up to an African American

• an African American who refused to give his seat up to a white man on a train

• a White man who refused to leave the Black car of a train

Multiple Choice

What did the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson confirm?

• Blacks were still not citizens

• segregation was unacceptable

• the legality of "separate but equal"

• segregation was not to be tolerated on trains

Multiple Choice

Why was Rutherford B. Hayes' bargain corrupt?

• South Carolina was a corrupt state with many scalawags

• the election was rigged and stolen from the Democratic nominee

• he wanted to win election more than he wanted to protect African Americans

• he was paid by the military to remove troops from the South

Multiple Choice

What were some various factors that brought an End to Reconstruction and the progress of Civil Rights?

• a. terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan

• b. the Corrupt Election of Rutherford Hayes in 1876

• c. Supreme Court Decisions like "Plessy v. Ferguson"

• All answers listed