Ch 11 and 12 Test Flashcards
Describe the public school system in AR. (teacher education, school year length, who was required to go to school) OR
1) school term was short, only a few weeks long
2) no law that required children to attend school
3) books and supplies were hard to attain and afford
4) few teachers had gone past the 8th grade
What were the 3 measures passed by state legislature In the early 1890s that kept blacks from voting OR
1) $1 poll tax
2) literacy test
3) couldn’t vote in primary election
Describe how Judge Parker and Bass Reeves stopped violence. OR
1) he would hang murderors
2) bass reeves went to indian territory to control violence there
3) wild land became farmland
Describe 3 ways the “old south” was different from the “new south”. OR
The old south was different from the new south…
- Did not have good transportation
- No skilled labor force
- Money to invest on a new south
- New rail roads
- slavery
what were the 3 goals of former slaves?
- own farming land
- good schools
- legal protection
what is a sharecropper?
a farmer who rents or does not own land, who is loaned necessary supplies such as shelter, tools, and equipment to work the land…legal slavery
What three groups held political positions in Arkansas at the beginning of reconstruction
african americans, scalawags, and carpetbaggers
Who took over as president after Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Johnson
who were redeemers?
ended reconstruction; canceled debt
University of Arkansas
the state university located in Fayetteville, which offers almost 200 programs. considered “flagship” state institution, major landgrant university in AR
What was the phrase that was allowed by the supreme court in 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case
“separate but equal”
Judge Isaac C. Parker
a judge on the US Federal District Court in Fort Smith
Bass Reeves
an african american who was the first to be commissioned as a US deputy marshal west of the MS River and worked in Judge parker’s court
radical reconstruction
harsh measures imposed by the US Congress upon the South following Pres. Lincoln’s and Johnson’s unsuccessful “soft” approaches
Freedman’s Bureau
an agency set up by the US government to provide food, clothing, shelter, and education to blacks after they were freed.
