I am not getting a clear answer. I show what I think is correct:

Which of the following is a successful result of the Reconstruction?
states could limit voting rights in elections
more African Americans could go to school
segregation kept the races apart or separate – my answer
sharecropping helped poor blacks own land

5 answers

"a successful result"

To me, this phrase implies the answer has to be something positive. Is the third answer choice positive?
Good question on being positive. Then it has to be more AA could go to school or Sharecropping helped poor blacks own land -- but I am still not sure -- it could be both. I think it is the last one because of the carpet baggers.
Are you clear on what sharecropping is?

http://www.answers.com/topic/sharecropping
Basically a land owner alllows someone else to live on his land and grow crops, and takes a portion of the crops as rent payment.
Does sharecropping sound as if anyone but the land owner ever owns that land eventually?