Lesson 4 The Aftermath of Reconstruction

The laws also included a _________, which required voters to read and explain parts of the Constitution, and a _________that stated if a voter's father or grandfather had been able to vote in January of 1867 they did not have to take the literacy test. (select 2 answers)

• Compromise of 1877

• literacy test

• grandfather clause

• poll tax

After 1877,________ , or separation of the races, became the law of the South. In 1896, the famous Supreme Court case ____________ruled that separate was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal, even though they rarely were.

• “New South”

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• segregation

• Jim Crow laws

These laws were called the _________ . As the economy in the South started to change and improve for some people, it became referred to as the __________.

• “New South”

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• segregation

• Jim Crow laws

The laws also included a _________, which required voters to read and explain parts of the Constitution, and a _________that stated if a voter's father or grandfather had been able to vote in January of 1867 they did not have to take the literacy test. (select 2 answers)

• Compromise of 1877

• literacy test

• grandfather clause

• poll tax

These white southerners voted solidly, Democratic. At the same time, they _____employed violence in order to stop African Americans from voting.

• specifically

• employ

• notorious

• amnesty

Why did many northerners lose faith in the Republicans?

• the Amnesty Act of 1872

• passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

• widespread Republican corruption

Many of the new laws were _______ intended to prevent African Americans from voting.

• specifically

• employ

• notorious

• amnesty

What was one political effect of Reconstruction in the South?

• Federal troops remained in control of southern governments after Reconstruction.

• The South remained Democratic for many years later.

• Southern states became more powerful than northern states.

What was the reason for grandfather clauses in southern literacy tests?

• to bar uneducated white people from voting

• to encourage white southerners to become literate

•   to allow illiterate white men to vote

Which statement best depicts the “New South”?

• building industry around southern natural resources

• building industry with help from northern businesses

• elimination of agriculture