Civil War and Reconstruction

Who got a big share of the sharecroppers harvest?

• the landowner

• the farmer's market

• the former slave

• the sharecropper

Why did many Southern legislatures pass Jim Crow laws after the Civil War?

• to protect sharecroppers from unfair labor practices

• to help African Americans exercise their voting rights

• to make sure segregated facilities were of equal quality

• to restrict the right of African American citizens

Which was a system used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner back with a certain amount of money they made from selling their crops?

• Freemen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Segregation

• Feudalism

What was one responsibility of the Freedmen's Bureau during the Reconstruction?

• providing food and clothing to people suffering in the South

• setting up new businesses to provide jobs for former slaves

• rebuilding railroads and bridges damaged during the Civil War

• discovering and arresting members of the Ku Klux Klan

Why did Jim Crow laws harm African Americans?

• they forced African Americans to become successful sharecroppers

• they began the period known as Reconstruction

• they required federal troops to leave the South

• they enforced the segregation of African Americans from other Americans.

Which group was a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves and others in the South?

• Virginians' Aid

• Continental Congress

• Jim Crowe

• Freemen's Bureau

After Reconstruction, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same area at the theater as whites. They had to sit in the back part of the theater, while whites sat at the front of the theater. This is an example of:

• integration

• segregation

• recontruction

• desegregation

The picture is set during Reconstruction and shows a man protecting African Americans in the South. Which group does the man in the center of the picture represent?

• Confederate Veterans

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Underground Railroad

• plantation owners

The Freedmen's Bureau was the first federal organization with the purpose of:

• controlling trade

• providing help to the poor

• giving healthcare to veterans

• collecting taxes

In exchange for being granted land to farm, sharecroppers were expected to:

• perform servants' duties in the landowner's home

• return much of the harvest to the owner of the land

• settle on land in the unexplored western United States

• provide housing for soldiers serving in the army.