U1 Reconstruction

What is the best definition of black codes?

• Laws made in the south to keep the races separated.

• Laws that only regulated the behavior of black men.

• Laws that attempted to recreate slavery but were repealed early in Reconstruction (1866).

• Laws created to protect ex-slaves set up by Radical Reconstruction state governments (1866).

_________________ were collections of convicts who were forced to work as punishment for crimes.

• Chain gangs

• Debt peonage

• Debt slavery

• Reconstruction

What was one cause and one effect of a company town?

• Increased employment of southern blacks ; higher percentage of criminal prosecutions of blacks

• 2/3rds of all arrests of southern blacks ; black mine workers unionization

• a way for workers to be organized for the business owner ; tying workers directly and indirectly to a business

• Money consolidation through government oversight ; increased taxes on different industries

What connection does convict leasing have to do with the constitution?

• The 8th amendment does not allow cruel or unusual punishment.

• Both federal and state government allow for prisoners to work for pay.

• The 13th amendment allows for involuntary servitude for people convicted of a crime.

• Only black southerners would be convicted and sent to prison throughout the south.

What do debt peonage, debt servitude, and debt slavery have in common?

• All were tied to plantation work after the Civil War.

• They were illegal under federal law.

• Only white southerners were subject to these laws because of Radical Reconstruction.

• State laws could be make debt laws criminally prosecuted.

One of the effects of the Great Migration was...

• Racial segregation laws being repealed in the upper south.

• Labor on southern farms became more scarce.

• Sharecropping grew to the dominant form of labor.

• A huge increase in the amount of people in Southern cities.

Which of the following is an example of a Jim Crow law?

• Forced labor for people who owe money to landowners.

• Emancipation laws allowing for black voter registration.

• Laws forbidding blacks from being educated.

• Segregation laws separating races in public places.

What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court stated that separation of races was wrong, but states were allowed to do this.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

• Homer Plessy's case was dismissed because he had no standing as a black man.

Which of the following was NOT considered a Reconstruction Amendment?

• Slavery being made illegal

• African American Male Suffrage

• Citizenship Defined and Protected

• Civil Rights Universal Protections

Which of the following statements about sharecropping is false?

• Sharecropping tied workers to land own by plantation owners.

• Sharecroppers constantly had to take out loans from the landowner.

• Sharecroppers were almost exclusively black.

• Sharecroppers had very little rights under southern state laws.