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Post-Reconstruction

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What group was represented by the People’s Party (Populist Party)?

a)

Farmers Alliance (Farmers)

b)

Bourbon Triumvirate

c)

Slaver Owners

d)

Government Employees

2.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Redskins vs Giants

b)

Aylor vs Byrd

c)

Brown vs Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs Ferguson

3.
Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 
a)
Racist
b)
Prejudice
c)
Discrimination
d)
Jim Crow
4.

What did governor Wade Hampton Want to do in SC?

a)

give African Americans full citizenship rights

b)

get the Bourbons out of office

c)

return to the pre-Civil War era

d)

repeal Jim Crow laws

5.

Why did the government of S.C. create the eight box law?

a)

to create eight seats on the S.C. Supreme Court

b)

to prevent many African Americans from voting

c)

to create eight political districts

d)

to limit the amount of cotton farmers could grow

6.

Ben Tillman is considered a controversial governor because he

a)

lowered taxes and abolished the S.C. Dispensary.

b)

founded the University of South Carolina

c)

he was against Jim Crow laws

d)

was a racist that further divided the state

7.

What farmer captured the Populist party vote in S.C. and later controlled the Democratic Party?

a)

Wade Hampton

b)

Thomas Clemson

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

Benjamin Tillman

8.

Benjamin Tillman attacked the Conservatives because he believed they

a)

ignored the small farmer

b)

ignored the civil rights of Blacks

c)

supported the North

d)

Supported agricultural schools

9.

One of the positive reforms that Benjamin Tillman made as governor included

a)

the founding of the Citadel

b)

establishing agricultural schools for small farmers

c)

creating colleges for African-Americans

d)

establishing schools for the elite

10.

What did the 18th Amendment enact and the 21st Amendment repeal?

a)

Women's Suffrage

b)

Child Labor

c)

Prohibition

d)

Civil Rights

11.

What was the main purpose of creating the Constitution of 1895?

a)

To limit African-Americans' rights

b)

To improve race relations

c)

To limit the power of banks and railroads

d)

To promote industry in S.C.

12.

What impact did Jim Crow laws have on African Americans?

a)

They kept them separated from the whites in public places.

b)

They granted them the right to vote.

c)

They brought more African Americans and whites closer together.

d)

They led to the creation of the Grange.

13.
What movement popular in the late 1800s wanted to reduce alcoholism by controlling   alcohol sales?
a)
Prohibition
b)
Temperance
c)
Sufferage
d)
Nativism
14.
When Reconstruction ended, who took control of political power in S.C.?
a)
African-Americans
b)
Conservative Democrats
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
Tillmanites
15.
Which of the following was NOT one of the ways African Americans were disenfranchised?
a)
Literacy test
b)
Poll taxes
c)
Eight Box Law
d)
Fifteenth Amendment
16.
Why was the S.C. Dispensary created by Governor Tillman?
a)
To stop the disenfranchisement of African-American voters
b)
To stop immigrants from taking jobs from factory workers
c)
To reduce alcoholism and bring in needed money for state government
d)
To protect the rights of African-Americans and immigrants