16.3 Check In

Reconstruction marked the first time African Americans did what?

• Voted in elections

• Served in the U.S. military

• Held public office

• Owned land

Describe what scalawags are.

• People from the northern United States who moved to the South after the Civil War

• Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War

• A type of fish found in the southern United States

• A term used to describe mischievous children in the 19th century

Describe what a carpetbagger is.

• A type of luggage used for travel

• A derogatory term used for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War

• A tool used in the installation of carpets

• A historical figure known for their contributions to textile manufacturing

Define Corruption:

• The act of giving or receiving something of value in exchange for some kind of influence or action in return that the recipient would otherwise not offer

• A process by which a word changes form when it combines with other words

• The systematic pattern of weather conditions in a region over a long period

• A legal process by which a person makes a formal declaration of their inability to pay their debts

Which of the following is a reason why life was hard for African Americans during reconstruction?

• Lack of political representation

• Discriminatory laws known as Black Codes

• Violence and intimidation by white supremacist groups

• All of the above

Identify a secret society that used fear and violence to control African Americans.

• The Illuminati

• The Freemasons

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Knights Templar

Why did Democrats, planters, and other white southerners support the Ku Klux Klan?

• To regain political power and maintain white supremacy

• For economic benefits

• To support civil rights movements

• None of the above

During Reconstruction governments set up what for both races?

• Public schools

• Segregated neighborhoods

• Voting restrictions

• Labor contracts

What was the percentage of African American children in the South that were attending school during the Reconstruction period?

• Less than 10%

• About 20%

• Approximately 30%

• Roughly 40%

A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop...

• Sharecropping

• Segregation

• Border States

• Jim Crow's Law