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Sharecropping resulted in freedmen and poor whites
a) to become very rich and independent
b) being able to pay off all their debts at harvest time
c) going into debt and, thus, becoming locked in a cycle of poverty
d) being able to buy more land

The new generation of Southern leaders sought to create a new South in which it used which of the following to rebuild its industry?
a) poll taxes
b) natural resources
c) sharecropping
d) 10% plan

Which of the following refers specifically to a fee voters were required to pay each time they voted?
a) grandfather clause
b) literacy test
c) poll tax
d) Jim Crow law

Which of the following refers specifically to the grandfather clause?
a) denies African Americans the right to vote, own guns, and serve on juries
b) no literacy test was required if a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan. 1, 1867
c) denied citizenship
d) demanded a fee be paid in order to vote each time

Corruption rocked the voting process in the highly controversial election of 1876, which resulted in a Republican securing the presidential seat over a Democrat
a) Rutherford B. Hayes by electoral vote over Samuel B. Tilden by popular vote
b) John Wilkes Booth by electoral vote over Samuel B. Tilden by popular vote
c) Samuel B. Tilden by popular vote over Rutherford B. Hayes by electoral vote
d) Andrew Johnson by electoral vote over John Wilkes Booth by popular vote

Who assasinated Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865?
a) Andrew Johnson
b) Samuel B. Tilden
c) Rutherford B. Hayes
d) John Wilkes Boothe

The 10% plan allowed for which of the following if 10% of voters swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S.?
a) each southern state to establish a new government and amnesty or a government pardon to
b) access to sharecropping system
c) amnesty or a government pardon to confederates swearing allegiance to the Union
d) Answers 1 and 2

Which of these terrorized African Americans in the South and attempted to maintain segregation in the South as well as preventing them from exercising their right to vote?
a) Freedmen
b) Klu Klux Klan
c) Sharecroppers
d) Black Codes

Which of these was enacted by southern legislatures as a means of preventing African Americans from voting, from owning guns, serve on juries?
a) sharecropping rights
b) grandfather clauses
c) Jim Crow Laws
d) Black Codes

Which of the following stated the ruling that segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal or separate but equal?
a) Lincoln's 10% Plan
b) 13th amendment
c) Plessy vs. Ferguson
d) Freedmen's Bureau

Which amendment banned slavery in America?
a) 16th
b) 14th
c) 13th
d) 15th

Which amendment granted citizenship to African Americans?
a) 13th
b) 14th
c) 15th
d) 16th

Which amendment says a citizen cannot be denied the right to vote based on that citizen's race?
a) 15th
b) 16th
c) 13th
d) 14th

Which refers to Jim Crow laws?
a) segregation in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries
b) required to take a literacy test prior to voting
c) payment of a fee to vote
d) denial of right to vote, own guns, serve on juries

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