Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, & Imperialism Review

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by,

• improve the status of African Americans

• state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African-Americans

• states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

• the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

• the amendments were not intended to solve their problems

• many African Americans distrusted the Federal Government

• Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws

• poor communications kept people from learning about their legal rights

The Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), provided for

• free land for former slaves

• separate public facilities based on race

• racial integration of public schools

• voting rights for African-American males

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern states were attempts to

• provide land to former slaves

• punish former Confederate leaders

• repeal the Jim Crow laws

• deny equal rights to African Americans

In the ten years following the Civil War, a large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming

• conductors on the Underground Railroad

• workers in Northern factories

• gold miners in California

• sharecroppers on Southern farms

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

• It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.

• It brought investment capital to the South.

• It encouraged Northerners to migrate south.

• It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits.

What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?        

• They were forced to grow cash crops instead of food.
•  They often were trapped in a cycle or circle of debt.
•  Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods on credit. 
•    All choices are true.

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Sharecroppers

• A system of farm work that led to a life of debt and poverty.
• Place that provided educational, medical, care, food and clothing to ex-slaves.
• change to the constitution

These laws were passed in the early 20th century to discriminate against African Americans. What were they know as?

• Buddy Smith Laws
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws
• Bob Eagle Laws