Reconstruction Review '25

What was an underlying cause of the Hamburg Massacre?

• No laws regarding meat-packing plants

• Division between the Democrats and Republicans

• White backlash against African Americans

• Disputes between the Catawba and Cherokee

What were the Jim Crow laws?

• Gave black men the right to vote
• segregated whites and blacks in the south
• Laws about crops that were written by Jim Crow
• Laws that forced whites to be nice to blacks in the south

Which part of the Constitution of 1895 allowed poor illiterate white farmers to vote even though they could not pass the literacy test?

• The Grandfather Clause
• Poll taxes
• The 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow laws

What was the most significant impact of the 1876 election of Wade Hampton III in South Carolina ?

• It caused the fall of the "Redeemers."
• It ended the Republican rule in South Carolina and put white Democrats back in power

• It allowed South Carolina to follow Republican policies.
• It allowed the rise of African American political power.

How did the Constitution of 1895 impact race relations in South Carolina?

• The Constitution lowered the rate of violence between white and black South Carolinians.
• The Constitution reversed the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
• The Constitution disenfranchised AAs and reflected the racist attitudes of the Democrats

• The Constitution required proof of land ownership for all voters

How was gerrymandering used by the Democrats in SC following Reconstruction?

• To make sure that the Democrats did not have political control in South Carolina
• To limit the political influence of AAs in SC

• To make sure that poor whites would not be disenfranchised.
• To limit the number of carpetbaggers who could be elected to the United States Congress.

Why did the Redeemers view the recently lost Civil War as a "lost cause"?

• Because of the great advantages of the North in the Civil War.
• Because the south was going to emancipate their slaves before the North attacked.
• Because most Southern states really never wanted to secede from the Union permanently.
• Because the south went back to Democrat control like before the war

Why did Ben Tillman want a new constitution for South Carolina in 1895?

• He wanted to help women gain the right to vote.
• He wanted the governor to have more power than the Assembly
• So African Americans to have more Civil Rights than what was provided in the Constitution of 1868.

• to secure political control of the Democratic Party

What was the Convict Lease Program?

• A program to help convicts get jobs after prison
• A program that allowed convicts be hired for physical labor like slavery

• A program where convicts rented a house instead of living in prison
• A program where men convicted of a crime could be set free.

All of these ways disenfranchised AAs EXCEPT:

• Eight Box Law
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Taxes
• Fifteenth Amendment