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WorksheetsFreedmen in Politics
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What distinction does Henry McNeal Turner hold?
one of the the first African American state legislators during Reconstruction
famous general at the battle of Chickamauga
Andersonville survivor
Carpetbagger who invested thousands of dollars in GA's textile industry
White supremacist organization that used violence & terror to intimidate freedmen and keep them from voting?
Freedmen's Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers League
Must pay a fee in order to vote?
Black Code
Grandfather clause
Voting dues
Poll tax
Required to pass a reading & writing assessment in order to vote?
Poll tax
Literacy test
Black Code
Grandfather clause
Who were freedmen?
escaped prisoners
discharged soldiers
former slaves
carpetbaggers
What happened to Georgia as a result of white members of the General Assembly expelling the African American members from the state legislature?
Congress forced the state to ratify the 15th Amendment.
Thre U.S. Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Georgia was placed under military occupation by the U.S. Army.
To separate people based on race?
segregation
discrimination
prejudice
biggotry
African Americans lost political power & social equality when Reconstruction ended and federal troops were withdrawn from the South?
true
false
White members of the GA General Assembly expelled the African American legislators based on the argument that having the right to vote does NOT guarantee someone the right to hold political office?
true
false
What happened to Henry McNeal Turner and the other black legislators who had been elected to the state legislature during Reconstruction?
The white members of the GA General Assembly expelled the African American legislators.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that having African American legislators was unconstitutional.
Congress outlawed the African American members of the GA General Assembly.
ALL choices
What was the reasoning that white leaders in GA used to expel the black legislators from the General Assembly?
the right to vote for black males did NOT include the right to be elected to office
white leaders argued that the black legislators had been elected due to voter fraud
white leaders contended that black legislators used violence and intimidation to win their elections
ALL answer choices
Select three (3) reasons for the establishment of the KU Klux Klan following the Civil War.
oppose Radical Reconstruction efforts of the Republican Party
resist the efforts of carpetbaggers & scalawags during Reconstruction
suppress the rights of freedmen and promote white supremacy
to assist the Freedmen's Bureau with providing daily necessities for former slaves
