Reconstruction #2
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- Q1After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor bypaying wages to farm workers who had migrated from the Northselling their plantations to formerly enslaved personshiring Irish immigrants to do the work of freedomcreating tenant farms and sharecropping30s
- Q2The Reconstruction Era ended when congressional Democrats agreed to the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, and the Republicans promised to do what?withdraw Federal troops from the Southdo away with the electoral collegegive each freedman 40 acres and a mulerepeal the 15th amendment30s
- Q3After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of thedecline of the Ku Klux Klanpassage of Jim Crow lawsactivities of the Freedmen's Bureaustationing of federal troops in the South30s
- Q4Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era primarily toguarantee that voters could read and writelimit the number of African American votersensure that formerly enslaved persons met property requirementsincrease the number of women voters30s
- Q5The label "Solid South" was applied to the former Confederate States after Reconstruction because theyrejected efforts to pass Jim Crow lawscontinued to support abolitionist causesconsistently supported the Democratic Partycould not participate in national politics30s