American Yawp, Chapter 15: "Reconstruction" Quiz 2

What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies?

• Attacking black candidates and office holders and frightening voters with threats of violence

• Targeting freedpeople who tried to purchase land or otherwise become too independent from the white masters they used to rely on

• White men beat or shot black men with relative impunity, and did so over minor squabbles, labor disputes, longstanding grudges, and crimes of passion

• All of the above

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Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?

• He was a former slave who tried to buy his master’s land at auction

• He was accused of trying to rape a white girl

• He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople’s civil rights

• He was a black minister who had organized a voting campaign in Mississippi

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What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?

• Sharecropping

• Wage labor

• Apprenticeships

• Chattel slavery

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What was the most significant change in the American economy as a result of the Civil War?

• Increased presence of the federal government in the economy

• Temporary abolition of the income tax

• Massive boosts in agricultural production

• Reduction of tariffs and a rise in free trade

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The Depression of 1873 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. What was the name of that company?

• Jay Cooke and Company

• Wells Fargo

• Bank of the United States

• B & O Railroad

The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?

• Gave the presidency to Samuel J. Tilden

• Promised the removal of federal troops from the South

• Lost the White House for the Republican Party

• Solved problems of voter fraud in Virginia and Texas

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