Chapter 17-4 Change in the South

The organization that was started in the South to oppose Black progress was the:

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawags of the South

• Radical Republicans

Separation of the races in the South was known as:

• differentiation
• integration
• Sharecropping
• Segregation

How did the Ku Klux Klan attempt to limit the effectiveness of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?

• charged prospective voters a tax to enter the polls
• used violence to keep some potential voters from the polls
• administered literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration
• adopted grandfather clauses to increase the number of poor white voters

Which best describes the Jim Crow laws that were enacted in many southern states in the late 1800s?

• laws prohibiting the production or sale of alcoholic beverages
• laws mandating segregation of different races as separate but equal
• laws mandating paying African Americans fair and equal compensation for labor
• laws prohibiting immigrants from taking jobs away from citizens born in the United States

What was a key goal of the "Redeemers"?

• The removal of Confederate troops from the South.
• The creation of federal military districts across the South.
• The return of the ability of states to run themselves without federal intervention in the South. Redeemed, or saved the South. 
• The election or appointment of Radical Republicans to state government offices in the South

What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896?

• It allowed African Americans the right to vote in local elections
•  It overturned the laws requiring public education for African Americans.
•  It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation of African Americans
• It mandated states to allow African Americans onany public transportation.

What was the effect when poll taxes were established in the South?

• American Indians were allowed to vote and run for office.
• African American men were kept from voting.
• African Americans were forced th attend separate schools.
• American Indians are forced to leave Virginia.

According to the "Grandfather Clause" of the 15th Amendment, a man could vote 

• regardless of race or religion.
• without owning property or passing a literacy test.
• could vote if his grandfather had voted before 1867
• if he had resided in the state for at least four years.

The official end of Reconstruction occurred

• when all states returned to the Union.
• when federal troops were deployed to the Southern states.
• with the Presidential election of 1876.
• with the formation of the Populist Party.

During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule

• True
• False