Ch. 18.3 The South During Reconstruction

The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.

• zero
• very small
• about half of all government officials in the South
• nearly all government officials in the South

For a brief time during Reconstruction, African Americans had a majority of seats in the lower house of which state’s legislature?

• Alabama
•  Ohio
• South Carolina
• Tennessee

Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction were sometimes called

• carpetbaggers.
• freedmen.
• Republican hostages.
  
• scalawags.

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called

• carpetbaggers.
  
• freedmen.
• Republican scalawags.
  
• sharecroppers.

Which method did some white Southerners use to try to overcome Republican rule?

•  civil rights legislation
• cooperation
•  violence
• voting reform

The Ku Klux Klan set out to terrorize

• Democratic voters
  
• African Americans and Republican voters
• the “New South.”
• white voters.
  

The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.

• increased
• decreased
• decreased for children and increased for adults
• increased for children and decreased for adults

A few states had laws requiring schools to be ________, where both white and African American students attended school together. Often these laws were not enforced.

• integrated
• segregated
• grandfathered
• academies 

Which of the following did many African Americans workers find to be little better than slavery?

• integration
  
• land ownership
• moving north
  
• sharecropping

In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?

• a percentage of the crop
• profits from crop sales
• seeds, tools, and a mule
• money for rent