Failures of Reconstruction ET

Beginning in the late 1800s, poll taxes, literacy tests , and grandfather clauses were used to -

• prevent African Americans from voting.

• Improve public education

• Protect important civil rights

• Restrict access to healthcare

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

• It provided a fairer distribution of farm lands and profits

• It encouraged Northerners to migrate south

• It brought investment capital to the South

• It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent and poor

The use of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of –

• The Freedman's Bureau

• The sharecropping system

• black codes

• The 14^th and 15^th amendments

The group illustrated above was created to

• A. Intimidate voters to support Tilden in the Election of 1876

• B. Support the South during the Civil War

• C. Eliminate sharecropping in the Southern states

• D. prevent formerly enslaved people from exercising their rights

As a result of the election represented above, Republicans agreed to -

• A. Fund Reconstruction policies such as Freedman’s Bureau

• B. support ratification of the 15^th Amendment

• C. Extend voting rights to women

• D. withdraw military troops from former states of the Confederacy

How did the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson lead to the passing of more Jim Crow laws?