Reconstruction Ends

Question 1

2 problems that occurred while Ulysses S. Grant was in office

Answer 1

Scandals and economic depression

Question 2

President of 1876

Answer 2

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 3

What ends Reconstruction?

Answer 3

Hayes agrees to end Reconstruction in exchange for 20 disputed electoral votes from 3 southern states

Question 4

Poll Taxes

Answer 4

Fee you had to pay in order to vote

Question 5

Literacy Tests

Answer 5

Tests for reading and writing in order to vote. After a while, if you couldn’t read and interpret parts of the Constitution they wanted to, you couldn’t vote

Question 6

Grandfather Clauses

Answer 6

If your father or grandfather voted before Reconstruction, you didn’t have to take the literacy tests. The purpose was to excuse white men from taking them.

Question 7

Segregation

Answer 7

Separation of races

Question 8

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 8

Laws that kept African Americans and whites separate in public places

Question 9

Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling

Answer 9

Segregation is legal as long as they get access to equal public places

Question 10

Lynching

Answer 10

Angry mobs killed people by hanging them