Failure of Reconstruction

Sharecropping practice of debt peonage was against the law, but state laws enforced it.

• True

• False

A system in which African Americans rented a plot of land, cabin, work animals , seeds and tools from a landowner and made payments to the landowner with a certain percentage of the crop they grew, usually a third or half.

• Tenant farmer

• Sharecropper

• Landlord

• Debt peonage

Sharecropping agreements were written in such a way that generally favored which of the following:

• Sharecroppers

• Landlords

• Freedmen

Which of the following was a common characteristic of both sharecropping and tenant farming?

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers worked on wheat farms in the Upper Midwest

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers employed white labor only

• both sharecroppers and tenant farmers did not own land

Freedmen who rented land from the landowner but provided own tools, seeds work animals and other provisions and therefore paid less in the form of their crops.

• Sharecropping

• Crop rotation

• Tenant farming

• Debt peonage

What happened because of the questions about the votes in those 3 states?

• The electoral votes were awarded to Hayes

• The electoral votes were awarded to Tilden

• The electoral votes were invalidated

• The electoral votes were split between Hayes and Tilden

Compromise of 1877 removed _________ from the South which left African American unprotected.

• Carpet baggers

• federal troops

• Politicians

• Freedmen

What was the purpose of the Compromise of 1877?

• To end Reconstruction in the South

• To establish home-rule in the South

• To grant voting rights to African Americans

• To resolve the disputed electoral votes

When did the sharecropping and tenant farming systems take shape?

• in the decades after the Civil War

• the period immediately after World War I

• the period immediately after World War II

What did Hayes agree to do in return for the votes of Democrats?

• Withdraw federal troops from the South

• Increase funding for education

• Enact new civil rights legislation

• Appoint Democrats to his cabinet