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Former soof war reopenedorker in the South during Reconstruction? Former slaves

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Former soof war reopenedorker in the South during Reconstruction? Former slaves refused to work for former owners. 94. Why was there a shortage of axricultural the Sou B) The demand for cotton, sugarcane, and tobacco increased. housands of emancipated blacks left the South to pursue opportunities in the North. 95. Under the sharecrop system, A) Government subsidies made up the difference between agricultural prices and the cost-of-living index. B) Landowners often received less than one half of the crops C) Landowners provided land, tools, seed, and work animals. D) Sharecroppers received one half of the yield of crops 96. Under the sharecrop system, A) Family units often worked the land. B) Landowners paid sharecroppers a salary until crops were harvested. C) Landowners shared labor expenses with the sharecropper D) Sharecroppers hired additional labor as needed. 97. What was the intent of the Tenure of Office Act? A) B) C) D) To enable congressmen to establish seniority in office. To provide job security as long as officeholders maintained good behavior. To limit the president to two terms in office. To prevent the president from firing a cabinet member without consent of the Senate. 98. What was the principal goal of terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan? A) To enable yeoman farmers to achieve prosperity. B) To keep the carpetbag-scalawag-black coalition intact. C) To prevent immigrants from taking jobs from American-born laborers. D) To restore white supremacy in the South 99. Why did Congress enact the "Ku-Klux Act" in 1871? A) B) C) D) To protect southern whites against false accusations and slander. To protect a free and fair vote in the South. To contain the KKK to the states where it already existed. To help southern states fight white organized crime.

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Ans 94.(D)

Ans 95. (B) Sharecropping refers to a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.

Ans 96. (A) The sharecropping system had come to dominate agriculture across the cotton-planting South by the start of the 1870s. In sharecropping system, black families would rent small plots of land, or shares, to work themselves; in return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.

Ans 97.(D)

Ans 98.(D) From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's principal goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy.

Ans 99.(D)

Ans 99.(D)

The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Force Act of1871, Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act,The Civil Rights Act of 1871 is a United States federal law that prohibits ethnic violence against blacks. The Act was passed to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses then being committed in the South.