APUSH 5.11

Which of the following would NOT be associated with Reconstruction in the South?

• shift from agricultural to industrial economy
• African Americans elected to office
• sharecropping replacing slave labor
• new schools and churches for former slave

The Republican Party of the 1870s were associated with all of the following EXCEPT

• helping former slaves
• pro business
• corruption
• industrialization

Eventually Congress removed the punishments on all but the top leaders of the Confederacy with the

• Amnesty Act
• Compromise of 1877
• Redeemers Act
• Freedman's Act

The Compromise of 1877 included all of the following EXCEPT

• ratification of the 13th Amendment
• election of Rutherford B Hayes as president
• removal of federal troops from the South
• support for a Southern transcontinental railroad

The Southern conservative politicians who took over the South at the end of Reconstruction were known as

• Redeemers
• Klansmen
• Radicals
• Liberal Republicans

Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

Adopted in 1865, it abolished slavery in the United States.

• 13th Amendement

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to nullify the codes, Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

Organized in Tennesse in 1866 to terrorize former slaves who voted or held political offices during Reconstruction. It would revive in the 1910s and 1920s stressing white, Anglo-Saxon supremacy.

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau