Lesson 3.3 - Reconstruction & Southern SOciety

Multiple Choice

Southern whites who supported Republicans and their plans for Reconstruction.

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Scalawags

Multiple Choice

Why did many Southerners dislike carpetbaggers?

• They were seen as traitors by white southerners.

• Southerners felt they were trying to benefit from the South’s misery.

• They feared northerners were planning on arresting all former Confederates.

Multiple Choice

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?

• Hiram Revels

• Blanche K. Bruce

• Jefferson Davis

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the primary goal of the Ku Klux Klan?

• To organize public education in southern states.

• To encourage African Americans to vote in upcoming elections.

• Prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Multiple Choice

How did the U.S. government respond to the actions of racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan?

• They made it a crime to use force to keep people from voting.

• They encouraged the creation of all Black groups to fight back against the KKK

• They required known members of the KKK to register with the government.

Multiple Choice

What does this image represent?

• The struggles white southerners went through adapting to a society without slavery.

• The struggles and discrimination African Americans dealt with during Reconstruction in the South.

• The economic benefits of sharecropping for landowners and former slaves.

Multiple Choice

How did southern states pay to build schools, railroads, and other physical structures?

• Taxes were increased

• States borrowed money from foreign countries.

• Former Confederate soldiers were required to volunteer on construction projects.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a problem associated with Reconstruction?

• State governments built schools all across the South.

• Corruption among politicians became common.

• Few African Americans wanted to participate as voters.

Multiple Choice

What caused many southern farmers to struggle after the Civil War?

• Southern farmers were required to pay additional taxes to help rebuild nearby cities.

• Other countries began growing and selling similar crops at affordable prices.

• People refused to buy their products because of what they did in the Civil War.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a negative impact of sharecropping?

• Sharecropping denied African Americans the right to vote.

• Sharecroppers were denied citizenship by the U.S. government.

• Sharecroppers were frequently in debt to landowners.