Unit 4: Lesson C: Failure of Reconstruction

How did the period of Reconstruction change the representation of African American men?

• They now participated in local and state legislatures, as well as the federal level of government.

• They still did not have elected representatives, but people were more aware of the issue.

• This was a period of strong racism and the Ku Klux Klan where there were no African Americans in state legislature.

Why was the 13th Amendment enacted? (a)  

• To expand the power of Congress
• To outlaw slavery
• To expand voting rights

How did carpetbaggers harm the Reconstruction Period?

• With the promotion of violent groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan

• With changes to equality laws

• With damage caused by their greed and corruption

• With voter suppression laws

What was the name given to former Confederates who seized local and state offices in the South?

• Carpetbaggers

• Reconstructors

• Sharecroppers

• Redeemers

What was the biggest change made by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in 1874?

• They stopped funding Reconstruction legislation.

• They overturned the 13th Amendment.

• They passed Jim Crow laws.

• They stopped paying for troops in the South.

Which of the following was a common characteristic of both sharecropping and tenant farming?

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers worked on wheat farms in the Upper Midwest

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers employed white labor only

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not own land

Sharecropping agreements were written in such a way that generally favored which of the following:

• Sharecroppers

• Landlords

• Freedmen

When did the sharecropping and tenant farming systems take shape?

• in the decades after the Civil War

• the period immediately after World War I

• the period immediately after World War II

The institution of slavery and sharecropping along with debt peonage was similar in what ways: (Pick all that apply 3)

• Freedmen would never own land.

• Perpetual cycle of debt.

• Would own land after debt paid off.

• Freedmen could be jailed for not paying off debt.

Sharecropping practice of debt peonage was against the law, but state laws enforced it.

• True

• False