Test: Reconstruction

According to the source provided, how did the Louisiana Constitution of 1898 affect the ability of African Americans to participate in the political process?

• It increased the number of locations in the state where African Americans could register to vote.

• It prohibited African Americans from voting in state and local elections.

• It restricted the right of citizens from the North to run for office at the state level.

• It established barriers intended to deny most African Americans the right to vote.

Which development was the result of the other three?

• The introduction of the sharecropping system.

• Many southern states passed Jim Crow laws.

• Racism in the South became institutionalized.

• African Americans had to pay a poll tax to vote.

Segregation practices changed with the passage of Jim Crow laws by allowing for the legal separation of races. Which of the following best describes what allowed for Jim Crow laws to be established, and name two examples of such laws?

• The Great Migration led to the creation of Jim Crow laws, such as the Voting Rights Act and Brown v. Board of Education.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed states to pass segregation laws, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.

• The Emancipation Proclamation required states to create separate facilities, such as segregated buses and water fountains.

• The end of Reconstruction allowed Southern states to pass laws enforcing segregation, such as separate schools and bans on interracial marriage.

This list describes conditions found in -

• California following the Gold Rush

• Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812

• Western territories after the U.S.-Mexican War

• southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

• Agricultural workers organized labor unions.

• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.

• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.

• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

What was the Great Migration?

• The movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

• The relocation of Native Americans to reservations.

• The expansion of the U.S. territory westward.

• The migration of Europeans to America.

Which section of the US felt more strongly in favor of states’ rights?

• North
• South
• Border states

Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?

• The passage of Jim Crow laws and establishment of segregation.

• The temperance movement.

• The passage of antitrust legislation.

• The conservation movement.

The Supreme Court case​ (a)   legalized state-ordered segregation. This​ (b)   doctrine created​​ (c)   laws which were designed to enforce the segragation of Blacks and Whites. Examples of segregation included​ (d)   , waiting rooms,​ (e)   , and swimming pools.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• separate, but equal
• Jim Crow
• bathrooms
• restaurants
• Brown v. Board of Education
• black codes
• equal, but separate
• houses

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Governments in the South soon passed laws to keep African Americans from voting. For example, they made people pay a ​ (a)   or pass a ​ (b)   to be eligible to vote. This caused many freedmen to lose their ​ (c)  

• Poll Tax
• literacy test
• voting rights
• voting tax
• citizenship test
• jobs as sharecroppers