Reconstruction's End

Reconstruction's End

by Dr. Kreider

Multiple Choice

Which Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

How did the southern governments try to limit African-American voting rights as Reconstruction ended?

​Your answer should have:

​-poll taxes

​-literacy tests

​-grandfather clauses

​-refusing to prosecture KKK members for use of violence against African Americans for exerising their rights

​-black codes/Jim Crow laws developed to increase segregation & limit educational, economic, & political opportunities.

Multiple Select

Why did sharecropping develop in the years after the war? Check all that apply.

• Planters had no money to pay workers

• Freedpeople had no land or money

• Promises of free land and supplies to Freedpeople never happened.

• Freedpeople left the South to move to the North and needed work

Multiple Select

Why was sharecropping damaging to African Americans and poor whites caught in this system?

• Sharecroppers always had to borrow money, and never earned enough to pay it off.

• Many lost their small farms due to debts

• It was a guranteed way to make a living

• Low prices for crops, high rents & debt kept many trapped on their plots for generations

• It was often the only job available to the people who participated in it.

Multiple Choice

Which amendment ended slavery?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

Multiple Choice

This amendment defined citizenship and gave us the "equal protection clause"

• 14

• 15

• 16

• 17

Multiple Choice

Who won the election of 1876?

• Grant

• Tilden

• Hayes

• Johnson

​Compromise of 1877

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​How is this the "end" of Reconstruction?

Multiple Choice

Segregation laws were referred to as:

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

• Segregation

• Apartheid

Multiple Select

Several methods were used to deny African Americans the right to vote. Check all that were used in the South:

• Required a picture ID

• Grandfather Clause

• Requirement to own property

• Poll Tax

• Required a high school diploma

Multiple Select

Who most likely drew this? Check all that apply

• A Southerner

• A Northerner

• A Democrat

• A Republican

• A supporter of Radical Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

Who is giving me the side eye for not sharing my bacon?

• Skylar

• Ziva

• Bentley