Explain the system of sharecropping. What was the role of the freed slaves? What was the role of the landowers?
Freed slaves could live and work on the land of landowners. They would provide all the labor in exchange for living there and a small percentage of the crops.
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How did the end of slavery impact the South after the Civil War?
The economy was weakened because wealthy plantation owners could no longer rely on slave labor to produce cash crops.
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What was one way the government tried to empower African Americans during Reconstruction?
They created the Freedmen's Bureau.
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What were some of the ways the KKK showed violence against Blacks in the South?
They would stand outside polling places where African Americans voted, they lynched African Americans, they used violence and intimidation
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What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
A group of people who were violent toward African Americans in the South
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Why did Abraham Lincoln make it easy for the South to rejoin the United States during Reconstruction?
He wanted to the country to be unified as quickly as possible.
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What was the effect of the Balck Codes on freedmen?
They were forced to be lower political, social, and economic statuses.
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What were some of the rights gained by African Americans during Reconstruction? (Name at least 3)
Right to attend school, hold public office, vote for men, full citizenship
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Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th
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What was a positive impact from Reconstruction on poor whites?
The public school system was established so all people had access to education.
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Why was sharecropping a positive system for Southern planters?
The freedmen would provide the labor on plantations after slavery was abolished.
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What group of people were affected by Jim Crow Laws?
African Americans
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Why were there so much racial tension in South Carolina during Reconstruction?
White Southerners did not recognize the new rights of African Americans and put laws in place to restrict their freedoms.
