
Southern Reconstruction Notes Check
Quiz by Ms. Erin
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Organize the voter groups from largest to smallest
Why did carpetbaggers move South after the Civil War?
Match the candidate and their promises to the political party they represented
Grant won the election of 1868 by 500,000 votes, with most of them being from which voter group?
Southern states were directed to write constitutions that did what?
Southern states held new elections, and ______of those elected were African Americans
Recreate the final note under the heading "New State Constitutions and Government" by arranging the words into order
True or False: White Southerners enjoyed seeing former slaves in power as elected officials
Southern Democrats vowed to "return the South to the _______ ________ ______"
Why did white southerners create secret groups?
True or False: The KKK still exists today
Match the act to it's description
What happened once white men were able to vote again in th South?
Match the candidate and election outcome to their political party
Who won the Election of 1876? (type his full name!)
Which group of people had control over Southern governments after the Election of 1876?
True or False: Public schools opened by the Freedmen's Bureau were expanded, and all Black children in the South attended school
What did poll taxes do?
What did literacy tests do?
The Supreme Court sided with _________ governments
The Supreme Court states that poll taxes and literacy tests were legal because they did not deny the right to vote based on _______.
The separation of people based on race
Racist laws enforcing segregation based on race became known as _____ _______ _______ (three word answer!)
True or False: African Americans argued that Jim Crow Laws violated the 14th Amendment which promises equal protection under the law.
Organize the phrases below to recreate the second to last sentence on our note under the heading "Plessy vs Ferguson". The sentence you need starts with "Supreme Court......
The Supreme Court's decision to legalize segregation in the South became known by what phrase/term?
True or False: "Separate but equal" became the norm in the South, and in reality it was fair and equal for both white Americans and African Americans.