Reconstruction Era QUIZS

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

• farm workers

• former slaves

• landowners

The 14th amendment allowed African Americans to be _______ of the United States.

• Scalawag

• Citizens

• Carpetbaggers

• Rights

The Reconstruction era ended in what year?

• 1862

• 1865

• 1965

• 1877

How did the system of sharecropping work during Reconstruction?

• The government took land away from plantation owners and gave it to former slaves.

• Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew.

• The government paid landowners who were willing to hire poor farmers in search of work.

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction era?

• To punish the Southern states

• To rebuild the South and integrate it back into the Union

• To expand westward

• To industrialize the Southern economy

The Reconstruction era started in what year?

• 1862

• 1865

• 1965

• 1877

What key factor prevented the Freedmen's Bureau from accomplishing its goals?

• lack of constitutional protections for former slaves

• refusal of American Indians to leave their homelands

• violence directed toward African Americans in the South

What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws passed in many southern states?

• to create segregated public schools

• to outlaw the practice of sharecropping

• to help pay for Westward Expansion

_______ is the time period of rebuilding after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Segregation

• Rights

_______ were Southerners who supported Republican reconstruction efforts.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawag

• Citizens

• Freedman’s Bureau