Checkpoint 28

How did the Ku Klux Klan try to achieve their goals?

• by using vigilante justice

• by opening schools

• by passing new laws

• by trying to overturn the black codes

How did the black codes affect African Americans?

• They were forced to leave the state.

• They were given an education.

• They were denied basic freedoms.

• They were allowed to vote.

The purpose of this political cartoon was to make a statement about which practice or concept?

• vigilante justice

• U.S. Reconstruction

• Tennessee Constitution of 1870

• segregation

How did the end of Reconstruction impact Tennessee’s African American elected officials?

• They were joined by more elected African Americans because the black codes passed.

• They were driven out of office by angry white people.

• They helped pass Jim Crow laws to stop violence against African Americans.

• They started the Freedmen’s Bureau to help African Americans.

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

• a legal group who passed laws to restrict the freedom of African Americans

• a peace group established by Congress to help former slaves have a better life

• a southern group who passed a new constitution in Tennessee

• a hate group that did not believe black people should have the same rights as white people