USH Ch. 18 Sec. 3 & 4

For a brief time during Reconstruction, African Americans had a majority of seats in the lower house of which state’s legislature?

• Alabama

• Ohio

• South Carolina

• Tennessee

Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called

• carpetbaggers.

• freedmen.

• fugitives.

• scalawags.

Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction were sometimes called

• carpetbaggers.

• freedmen.

• Republican hostages.

• scalawags.

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called

• carpetbaggers.

• freedmen.

• Republican scalawags.

• sharecroppers.

Which of these groups murdered freed African Americans in the South?

• the Democrats

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Radical Republicans

• the Scalawags

Which method did some white Southerners use to try to overcome Republican rule?

• civil rights legislation

• cooperation

• violence

• voting reform

Which of these is an arrangement in which farmers give a share of their crops to landowners?

• credit

• corruption

• integration

• sharecropping

Which of the following did many African Americans workers find to be little better than slavery?

• integration

• land ownership

• moving north

• sharecropping

The Ku Klux Klan set out to terrorize

• Democratic voters

• African Americans and Republican voters

• the “New South.”

• white voters.

Reconstruction effectively ended after

• the 1875 Civil Rights Act.

• the election of Hayes as president.

• the Republican Party dissolved.

• the Southern Democrats disbanded.