The removal of federal troops from the South most directly enabled which subsequent development?

Answer: Redeemer governments' disfranchisement of African American voters With federal protection gone, Democratic "Redeemer" regimes used poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence to disfranchise black voters. The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870; Klan prosecutions occurred earlier under the Force Acts; meaningful land redistribution never happened.

The Ku Klux Klan, founded in Tennessee (1866)

Answer: Used terrorism to suppress Black voting and Reconstruction governments Federal Enforcement Acts (1870-71) temporarily suppressed it.

The withdrawal demanded in this resolution was secured through which political bargain?

Answer: The Compromise of 1877 settling the Hayes-Tilden election The disputed 1876 election was resolved by awarding Hayes the presidency in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the last Reconstruction states. Crittenden was a pre-war proposal; Wade-Davis concerned wartime Reconstruction; the Force Acts targeted the Klan.

AP US History · Topic 5.11

Failure of Reconstruction Practice

Part of Period 5: 1844–1877.

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Sample 1difficulty 3/5
$"Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to inform the House... whether any military force has been or is now employed by the United States in any of the late insurrectionary States to sustain the existing State governments... the people of the country earnestly demand the immediate withdrawal of such forces." — Congressional debate over withdrawal of federal troops, 1877$
$The removal of federal troops from the South most directly enabled which subsequent development?$
- A
  $The federal prosecution of Ku Klux Klan members$
- B
  $Redeemer governments' disfranchisement of African American voters$
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- C
  $Immediate ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment$
- D
  $The breakup of large plantations through land redistribution$
Why
$With federal protection gone, Democratic "Redeemer" regimes used poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence to disfranchise black voters. The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870; Klan prosecutions occurred earlier under the Force Acts; meaningful land redistribution never happened.$
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Sample 2difficulty 3/5
$The Ku Klux Klan, founded in Tennessee (1866)$
- A
  $Was a biracial labor union organizing sharecroppers across the South$
- B
  $Was a peaceful fraternal organization promoting Southern cultural heritage$
- C
  $Used terrorism to suppress Black voting and Reconstruction governments$
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- D
  $Was an abolitionist society protecting freedmen from white violence$
Why
$Federal Enforcement Acts (1870-71) temporarily suppressed it.$
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Sample 3difficulty 3/5
$"Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to inform the House... whether any military force has been or is now employed by the United States in any of the late insurrectionary States to sustain the existing State governments... the people of the country earnestly demand the immediate withdrawal of such forces." — Congressional debate over withdrawal of federal troops, 1877$
$The withdrawal demanded in this resolution was secured through which political bargain?$
- A
  $The Crittenden Compromise of 1860$
- B
  $The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864$
- C
  $The Compromise of 1877 settling the Hayes-Tilden election$
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- D
  $The Force Acts of 1870-1871$
Why
$The disputed 1876 election was resolved by awarding Hayes the presidency in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the last Reconstruction states. Crittenden was a pre-war proposal; Wade-Davis concerned wartime Reconstruction; the Force Acts targeted the Klan.$
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Sample 4difficulty 3/5
$The Compromise of 1877 is generally considered the end of Reconstruction because it:$
- A
  $Removed the last federal troops from the South, leaving freedpeople without federal protection$
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- B
  $Repealed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments$
- C
  $Outlawed the Republican Party in the South$
- D
  $Returned former Confederate officials to the U.S. Senate by federal mandate$
Why
$To resolve the disputed 1876 election, Republicans agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the South in exchange for Hayes's presidency, ending federal enforcement of Reconstruction policies.$
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Sample 5difficulty 4/5
$Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)$
- A
  $Established 'separate but equal' doctrine, legitimizing racial segregation$
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- B
  $Was overturned immediately by Congress through new civil rights legislation$
- C
  $Banned racial segregation in public facilities, ending Jim Crow laws$
- D
  $Granted full civil rights and equal protection to African Americans$
Why
$Effectively legalized Jim Crow until Brown v. Board of Education (1954).$
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