Black Codes, Homestead Act, & Jim Crow Laws

How did the Jim Crow Laws try to restore the ways of the “old south “?

• They prevented black southerners from buying land or starting businesses.

• They prevented black southerners from using “whites” only facilities.

• They prevented black southerners from leaving the South.

• They prevented black southerners from taking any other jobs outside of sharecropping.

The goal of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was to:

• Keep african Americans in the south safe

• Keep African Americans in the south powerless

• Intimidate poor whites so they would not vote

• Keep peace between southern blacks and whites

Southern whites restricted the freedom of African Americans soon after the civil war by using:

• The federal court

• Congressional aid

• Freedman’s bureau

• Black codes

What is one reason that supports why so many people moved to the Great Plains in the late 1800s?

• They wanted to create new cotton plantations using the land available on the frontier

• They wanted to move away from corrupt politicians and business owners who controlled the northern and southern cities

• The federal government was selling land in the Great Plains at cheap prices

• They heard gold had been discovered out west and went to work in the gold mines along the Great Plains

Which two businesses prospered in Tennessee?

• Processing coal

• Drilling oil

• Manufacturing Coca-Cola bottles

• Building railroads

Select two identifying characteristics of Buffalo Soldiers.

• African American soldiers in the US military who fought in the Indian War.

• Soldiers who got their nickname for their tough battlefield spirit

• Citizens seeking equal rights for women

• American Indians who hunted buffalo on the Great Plains

Identify the famous Buffalo Soldier from Tennessee that earned a Medal of Honor for his bravery in the Indian War.

• Fredrick Douglass

• John Breckinridge

• George Jordan

• George Washington Carver

A homestead certificate granting 160 acres of land in Nebraska in 1868 could be used by a historian studying post-Civil War period to help explain how:

• Southern states recruited men to form a militia

• Agriculture was developed in the northeast

• Western lands were settled

• The government acquired territory in the southeast

Why did settlers on the Great Plains build sod houses?

• Sod made the houses easy to heat

• Sod was a readily available resource

• Sod protected the settlers from the buffalo

• Sod was an insect-proof material

Who were Buffalo Soldiers?

• A group of immigrants that fought for the US Navy.

• A group of African Americans that fought for the US Army and helped tame the Great Plains.

• A group of northerners that were later elected into office.

• A small army that fought to free slaves.