17 - Reconstruction - Part 2

Which inference is most clearly supported by the information in this table?

• Slavery decreased throughout the South with the end of the African slave trade

• The enslaved population began to decline after 1840.

• The transcontinental railroad spread slavery outside the South.

• Slavery would likely have continued to grow had there not been a civil war.

Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to...

• provide an education for formerly enslaved persons

• protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons

• enforce racial segregation

• ensure equal protection under the law

After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to...

• diversify agricultural production

• provide a labor supply to plantation owners

• give forty acres of land to freedmen

• guarantee economic equality for African Americans

Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the late 1800s were designed to...

• support civil rights for African Americans

• create a system of legal segregation

• give free land to formerly enslaved persons

• compensate landowners for damage done during the Civil War

Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era primarily to...

• increase the number of women voters

• limit the number of African American voters

• guarantee that voters could read and write

• ensure that formerly enslaved persons met property requirements

After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons by...

• passing Black Codes

• ratifying the 15th amendment

• supporting the goals of the Radical Republicans

• enacting legislation to strengthen the Freedmen’s Bureau

The military districts shown on the map were created during Reconstruction to...

• create economic and social equality in the South

• pay for the physical rebuilding of the South

• move Native American Indians to reservations

• govern the former Confederate states

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to...

• set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons

• encourage freedmen to migrate north

• maintain a cheap labor supply

• sell their plantations to formerly enslaved person

What was a result of the disputed presidential election of 1876?

• Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.

• Slavery was reestablished in the South by state legislatures.

• New state laws were passed in the South to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.

• A constitutional amendment was adopted to correct problems with the electoral college system.

In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to...

• withdraw federal troops from the South

• support the Black Codes

• award the presidency to Democrat Samuel Tilden

• accept the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford