End of Reconstruction

How did the practice of sharecropping perpetuate an inferior social status for African Americans?

• It kept African Americans in a cycle of poverty and debt to white men.

• It required African Americans to denounce their voting rights.

• It forced African Americans to pay a higher price to purchase land.

• It limited the number of African Americans who could live in the South.

This political cartoon was published in Judge magazine in 1892. This cartoon depicts what tactic used by southern whites to suppress the black vote?

• raising poll taxes

• using intimidation

• requiring literacy tests

• adopting the grandfather clause

How did Southern legislatures attempt to limit the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction?

• by passing policies supported by progressive reforms

• by adopting discriminatory policies known as Jim Crow laws

• by ratifying new amendments to the Constitution

• by extending suffrage rights to African American men

The Supreme Court upheld the southern practice of "separate but equal" in what ruling?

• the Dred Scott decision

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• the Compromise of 1877

• Brown v. Board of Education

After the Civil War, why did many southern states institute poll taxes and literacy tests?

• to give government jobs to the most educated citizens

• to encourage all children to attend school

• to ensure that all land owners paid their taxes

• to prevent African Americans from voting

How were African Americans in the South impacted by the end of Reconstruction?

• They increased political participation as voting rights expanded to include African American women.

• They gained economic equality as sharecropping increased in popularity and cotton farming became profitable.

• They received better schools when the Supreme Court ruled that public facilities must be separate but equal.

• They lost political power as southern states passed laws to negate gains made through the 14th and 15th Amendments.

This chart shows the number of African Americans registered to vote in Louisiana in two different years.

What action accounts for the trend in this graph?

• Many African Americans left the state during the Great Migration.

• Louisiana stopped holding elections during this time period.

• Citizens of Louisiana no longer needed to register in order to vote in national elections.

• Jim Crow laws such as poll taxes and literacy tests were introduced.

How did the Jim Crow laws affect society in the South from the 1880's to the 1950's?

• The laws required more intense security at state borders.

• The laws enforced segregation between African Americans and whites.

• The laws enforced strict farming regulations.

• The laws encouraged the weakening of a plantation economy.

How did Booker T. Washington’s rhetoric differ from that of other civil rights advocates of the Progressive Era?

• He emphasized women’s roles and their contributions to civil rights.

• He advocated economic improvements over political rights.

• He ignored political issues such as lynching and Jim Crow laws.

• He focused on the short-term goal of complete equality.

W.E.B. Du Bois would agree with which statement?

• Vocational education is the best way for African Americans to gain economic equality.

• The most educated African Americans should serve as leaders of the movement for equal rights.

• A gradual approach to gaining rights will be more effective for African Americans in the South.

• African Americans should accept segregation in exchange for better economic and political statuses.