Lesson 3.4 - Life After Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

Returned voting rights to many white southerners who had lost their right to vote for being a part of the Confederacy.

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Amnesty Act

• Fourteenth Amendment

Multiple Choice

What caused Radical Republicans to lose power in the South?

• They supported the use of poll taxes.

• They tried to reinstate slavery

• Political corruption

Multiple Choice

What was the overall impact of the increasing influence of the Democratic Party after Reconstruction ended?

• African Americans steadily lost rights they had been given during Reconstruction.

• African Americans gained more rights after Reconstruction ended.

• Membership in hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan began to decrease.

Multiple Choice

Why did poll taxes and literacy tests lead to a decrease in the number of African Americans voting?

• African Americans could not vote because their grandfathers could not vote.

• Many African Americans did not have the money or education to meet the requirements.

• African Americans protested discrimination by boycotting elections.

Multiple Choice

Why did Democrats add Grandfather Clauses to their restrictions on voting rights?

• Some white southerners could not pass the literacy tests required to vote.

• They wanted to create a holiday to recognize grandparents.

• They wanted to encourage older people to vote in elections.

Multiple Choice

What is segregation?

• The system created to limit the voting rights of African Americans.

• The system used to return voting rights to those who lost them after the Civil War.

• The separation of people based upon their race, ethnicity, gender, or religion.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

• They were laws created to establish schools for African Americans in the south.

• They established and enforced segregation throughout southern states.

• They were created to guarantee African American voting rights.

Multiple Choice

How did the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson impact the South?

• It declared that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were equal.

• It declared the denial of voting rights of former Confederate leaders a violation of the Constitution.

• It declared voting restrictions against African Americans illegal.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a reason southern states wanted to focus on developing manufacturing in their states?

• New laws required factories to be built in southern states to provide jobs to former slaves.

• It was the first step of their plan to break away from the Union for a second time.

• They wanted to have a more balanced economy that did not depend on just farming.

Multiple Choice

Why would American Tobacco Company build a factory to produce tobacco products in North Carolina?

• A lot of tobacco was grown in North Carolina

• North Carolina still allowed slave labor.

• North Carolina had the largest population of smokers.