Topic 10 Lesson 3 Quiz

In the early years of Reconstruction,

• Democrats overwhelmingly controlled Southern politics.

• many African Americans were elected to public office in the South.

• the Whig Party gained strong support among plantation owners.

• the Republican Party lost support from scalawags and carpetbaggers.

A major disadvantage to African American tenants in the sharecropping system was that

• most farmland in the South had been destroyed during the war.

• few landowners were willing to rent land to freed African Americans.

• freed African Americans typically lacked funds to buy farmland.

• landowners could demand high crop percentages leaving sharecroppers in debt.

To increase Southern Democrat power, Southern politicians, called “redeemers,” would often

• terrorize African Americans and Republican voters.

• force African Americans to join the Democratic Party.

• pay carpetbaggers and scalawags to vote for Democratic candidates.

• work closely with Southern Republicans to find common ground.

The presidential election of 1876 ended Reconstruction because President Rutherford B. Hayes

• vetoed all Radical Republican legislation.

• filled Southern legislatures with his supporters.

• withdrew all federal troops from the South.

• guaranteed civil rights to African Americans.

Reconstruction failed to protect African Americans’ civil rights because the federal government did not

• ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.

• prohibit Jim Crow laws throughout the South.

• force Southern states to integrate schools.

• pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Supreme Court ruled, in part, that

• the Thirteenth Amendment was unconstitutional because enslaved people were property.

• the Fourteenth Amendment did not guarantee social equality for African Americans.

• the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not go far enough to protect civil rights.

• the Fifteenth Amendment granted suffrage to both African American men and women.