Author Question: At the end of the Reconstruction period, southern blacks in general A) dominated southern ... (Read 71 times)

mynx · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In an attempt to improve their condition after freedom, blacks during the Reconstruction period

A) placed little emphasis on education.
B) encountered little white opposition to their educational efforts.
C) often worked through their churches.
D) relied exclusively on the Freedman's Bureau.

Question 2

During the Reconstruction Era, poor black southerners

A) generally embraced an emotional and revivalistic religion.
B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern state governments.
C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
D) escaped from the tenant farming system.

Question 3

During Reconstruction, poor blacks and poor whites in the South

A) largely owned their own farmland.
B) found economic independence through the tenant farming system.
C) often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
D) came together in harmony.

Question 4

During the Reconstruction period, southern tenant farmers

A) found it easy to gain ownership of their own land.
B) united to confiscate the property of the landowners.
C) generally grew almost all of what they needed for survival.
D) seldom earned much money and fell into debt.

Question 5

At the end of the Reconstruction period, southern blacks in general

A) dominated southern politics.
B) remained economically dependent on southern whites.
C) had gained effective economic independence from southern whites.
D) had mostly migrated to the North.