Alabama After Reconstruction

laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 

• Racist
• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Jim Crow Laws

In which year the law changed and women started to vote?

• 1840

• 1920

• 2016

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute to help African Americans develop useful job skills

• Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Law Olmsted
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Ida B. Wells

What was the main industry in Alabama before the Civil War?

• peanuts

• corn

• cotton

• soybean

_____'s port was important to the growth of Alabama, so it was enlarged.

• Montgomery

• Mobile

• Birmingham

• Selma

_____ was known as the birthplace of Civil Rights.

• Montgomery

• Mobile

• Birmingham

• Selma

Birmingham became popular after Reconstruction because it was formed-

• to be the birthplace of Civil Rights.

• to be the capital of Alabama.

• to improve Alabama.

• where two railroads meet.

Schools after Reconstruction were much like schools are today.

• True

• False

In order to be more successful with the cotton industry, what did Alabama decide to do?

• turn cotton into cloth here in Alabama

• sell the cotton to the north

• ship the cotton to England

• raise other crops instead of cotton, like corn and peanuts