Exam 1

Question 1

What is a Carpetbagger?

Answer 1

Derogatory term for whites from the North that moved to the South during Reconstruction.

Question 2

What is a Scalawag?

Answer 2

A white southerner who supported Reconstruction and joined Black freedmen and “carpetbaggers” in support of Republican policies (liberal)

Question 3

What were some Disfranchisement tactics after Reconstruction?

Answer 3

Grandfather Clause, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Mobile Polling Sites

Question 4

What were the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?

Answer 4

criminal codes that protected Blacks right to vote, hold office, serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws!

Question 5

What was “Redemption”?
aka opposite of Reconstruction

Answer 5

the name given to the efforts of Southern Democratic political leaders + white supremacists who tried to remove rights for blacks and bring back white supremacy

Question 6

What is the “Lost Cause” narrative?

Answer 6

the perspective of the Confederacy that sought to reconcile the “traditional white society” of the US and ended up losing

Question 7

What was the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 7

settled the intense 1876 election

Question 8

What is “Solid South” ?

Answer 8

the large consistent support for Democrats (racist party) in all elective offices
they’re solid

Question 9

1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 9

separate but equal, set the stage for racial segregation in the South

Question 10

Jim Crow?

Answer 10

any of the laws that enforced racial segregation

Question 11

What was racial etiquette?

Answer 11

governed the actions, manners, attitudes, and words of all blacks when in the presence of whites

Question 12

Lynching from 1880 to 1940

Answer 12

perpetrated to enforce white supremacy
most victims were accused of
murder or attempted murder
rape or attempted rape
violating racial etiquette
engaged in economic competition w whites

Question 13

Who is and what did Ida B Wells do?

Answer 13

Ida B. Wells is an american journalist
who used the power of journalism to raise awareness about extreme horrors of life under Jim Crow
& led anti lynching crusades in the 1890’s

Question 14

Liberian Exodus?

Answer 14

the emigration of black people from South Carolina to Liberia

Question 15

Exodusters in Oklahoma and Kansas?

Answer 15

more than 20,000 African Americans left the South for Kansas and Oklahoma Territory bc Kansas fought to be a free state

Question 16

Convict-Lease System (Neoslavery)
eliminating costs and increasing revenue

Answer 16

States leasing out convicts to local planters/industrialists who would pay minimal rates for the workers (in return they’d have food and housing)

Question 17

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 17

Survival of the Fittest
the idea that certain people become powerful in society bc they are innately better

Question 18

Jim Crow schools?

Answer 18

Schools for African Americans in the South
taught only skills needed for agricultural work and domestic service, instead of high schools in order to appease racist whites

Question 19

Booker T. Washington’s Hampton/Tuskegee model of schooling?

Answer 19

In favor of Industrial Education and Agricultural expertise instead of higher education

Question 20

Jim Crow in US Armed Services?

Answer 20

segregation even in military
black soldiers were not moved to higher positions
after the war it angered whites to see black men in uniform

Question 21

Red Summer?

Answer 21

racial violence after black americans were discharged from the military, whites feared the return of black veterans + that they wouldn’t be willing to resubmit

Question 22

Janie Porter Barrett?

Answer 22

Locust Street Settlement House
first settlement org. for Black people in US
VA Industrial School for Colored Girls
rehabilitation center for “delinquents”

Question 23

Mary Church Terrell?

Answer 23

Journalist, American Civil Rights Activist, teacher, one of the first women to earn a college degree

Question 24

Great Migration

Answer 24

Black Southern Americans moving North and West to find better opportunities throughout until the 1970’s