In an effort to gain the right to vote

In an effort to gain the right to vote

Question 1

In an effort to gain the right to vote, African Americans did all of the following during the Reconstruction era except

They marched for it.

They paraded to advocate for bills endorsing it.

They lionized black Revolutionary heroes to establish their credentials as vote-casting Americans.

They attempted to unite with the women’s suffrage movement.

They held mock elections to show their capacity and desire to participate in the American political process.

Question 2

Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners

began advertising in the North and in Europe for farm workers, determined not to use black labor and pay for it.

tried without success to force blacks who had once been their slaves to work under very similar conditions, even to the point of using the whip.

could not understand how they were to treat the former slaves, since they had never been in that situation before.

decided to make the first overtures and directly offered shorter hours and no gang work.

sold their plantations rather than have to hire and pay free blacks.