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Please hurry 1.
The town of Nicodemus was thriving in 1877 but began to decline over the next two decades for what reason?

The railroads avoided the town, cutting it off from growth.

After the original Exodusters migrated to Kansas, no other African Americans moved there.
2.
What were the Black settlers who migrated to Kansas in 1877 called?

fugitives

Exodusters

3.
Paul is an election official in the South who is asked to create a flyer sent to African America homes that lists an incorrect location for the next election. Democrats would often change polling places or block the roads to polling places to stifle the Black vote. What were these efforts called?

leniency

voter manipulation

4.
As a free Black in the South, you had the right to enter the sharecropping system, which could have been a reliable way to make money when crops were sold. However, many Black sharecroppers did not get what was due to them. Why was that?

They didn’t work hard enough in the field and the land owner took that out of their pay.

They couldn’t read the contract so they had to agree to whatever the land owner gave them.

5.
How long did the system of segregation continue after the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was declared unconstitutional?

15 years

100 years

6.
African Americans who left the rural South for larger cities did so because of what economic benefit?

City workers got all of their wages in one lump sum.

City workers were paid regularly instead of at the end of the season.

7.
What were many African Americans who migrated out of the rural South trying to escape?

urbanization

poverty

8.
What was one way white Southern lawmakers used to strip Blacks of the right to vote?

requirement of a birth certificate to vote

a poll tax

9.
Southern lawmakers put into place a condition that said that only men who were eligible to vote in 1867 or had male family members who were able to vote at that time were qualified to vote. What was this condition called?

a poll tax

the grandfather clause

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10.
This system of segregation in America ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

True

False

11.
What is gerrymandering?

stuffing the ballot box

manipulating electoral districts to help one party

12.
What was the system in which laborers are bound to a landowner because of debt called?

crop liens

peonage

13.
Many Blacks migrated to Africa or to the Western territories to escape unbearable conditions in the South.

True

False

14.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many African Americans migrated to Liberia, an African nation that was established for what purpose?

as a home for resettled slaves

as a new slave trading post

15.
During Reconstruction, what did white Southerners work to do?

reestablish clear boundaries between Blacks and whites

make sure Blacks had the right to vote

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