WorksheetsU1 Reconstruction
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the best definition of black codes?
Laws made in the south to keep the races separated.
Laws that only regulated the behavior of black men.
Laws that attempted to recreate slavery but were repealed early in Reconstruction (1866).
Laws created to protect ex-slaves set up by Radical Reconstruction state governments (1866).
_________________ were collections of convicts who were forced to work as punishment for crimes.
Chain gangs
Debt peonage
Debt slavery
Reconstruction
What was one cause and one effect of a company town?
Increased employment of southern blacks ; higher percentage of criminal prosecutions of blacks
2/3rds of all arrests of southern blacks ; black mine workers unionization
a way for workers to be organized for the business owner ; tying workers directly and indirectly to a business
Money consolidation through government oversight ; increased taxes on different industries
What connection does convict leasing have to do with the constitution?
The 8th amendment does not allow cruel or unusual punishment.
Both federal and state government allow for prisoners to work for pay.
The 13th amendment allows for involuntary servitude for people convicted of a crime.
Only black southerners would be convicted and sent to prison throughout the south.
What do debt peonage, debt servitude, and debt slavery have in common?
All were tied to plantation work after the Civil War.
They were illegal under federal law.
Only white southerners were subject to these laws because of Radical Reconstruction.
State laws could be make debt laws criminally prosecuted.
One of the effects of the Great Migration was...
Racial segregation laws being repealed in the upper south.
Labor on southern farms became more scarce.
Sharecropping grew to the dominant form of labor.
A huge increase in the amount of people in Southern cities.
Which of the following is an example of a Jim Crow law?
Forced labor for people who owe money to landowners.
Emancipation laws allowing for black voter registration.
Laws forbidding blacks from being educated.
Segregation laws separating races in public places.
What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
The Supreme Court stated that separation of races was wrong, but states were allowed to do this.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
Homer Plessy's case was dismissed because he had no standing as a black man.
Which of the following was NOT considered a Reconstruction Amendment?
Slavery being made illegal
African American Male Suffrage
Citizenship Defined and Protected
Civil Rights Universal Protections
Which of the following statements about sharecropping is false?
Sharecropping tied workers to land own by plantation owners.
Sharecroppers constantly had to take out loans from the landowner.
Sharecroppers were almost exclusively black.
Sharecroppers had very little rights under southern state laws.
