History Unit 10 Reconstruction in the South

Question 0

What did the white democrats resent

Answer 0

Republican governments

Union army occupying south

Question 1

What was the economic competition in the new south

Answer 1

Landless whites and blacks compete

Question 2

What happened between 1868 and 1876

Answer 2

Enfranchised voters begun to elect black politicians
14 representatives
2 senators
-Hiram Revels

Question 3

Scalawags

Answer 3

Whites looking for start in politics in south

Locked out of pre war politics (poor)

Question 4

Carpetbaggers

Answer 4

Opportunists looking to prosper from South’s misery

Access northern capital to build businesses

Question 5

Sharecropping

Answer 5

Freedmen exchange labor for use of land, house, sees, and fertilizer
Turn over 1/2 to 2/3 of crops to land owner
Must borrow food and supplies for greater % of crops

Question 6

What do Republican Governments create and what do they do

Answer 6

Schools to educate former slaves
Provide economic opportunities
New churches also become centers of community as schools/places of worship

Question 7

When and where was the Klu Klux Klan formed and by whom

Answer 7

TN 1865 by General Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 8

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan

Answer 8

To promote white supremacy by resisting “radical rule”

Sheeted Klansmen use violence to intimidate voters

Question 9

What did the Ku Klux Klan do

Answer 9

Attack black schools, churches, and politicians

Lynching

Question 10

How did the government respond to the KKK

Answer 10

Enforcement acts of 1870-71 
Ku Klux Klan Acts
Illegal to interfere w voting rights 
Klan involvement drops 
Popularity again rises decades later