HUSH Textbook

Question 1

Union League

Answer 1

Founded in Philadelphia in 1862, sponsored Republican groups that aimed to encourage freedmen to join the party

Question 2

Hiram Revels

Answer 2

First black congressmen

Question 3

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 3

First black woman to found a four-year college, Bethune-Cookman University

Question 4

Enforcement Acts

Answer 4

1870-1871, First: imposed penalties on anyone who interfered with any citizen’s right to vote, Second: Dispatched federal supervisors and marshals to monitor elections in southern districts where political terrorism flourished, Third: called the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawed the main activities of the KKK like forming conspiracies, wearing disguises, resisting officers, and intimidating officials, these weren’t often enforced

Question 5

Compromise of 1877

Answer 5

An unwritten agreement between both parties that would elect Hayes as president if he took the last federal troops out of the South

Question 6

Mississippi Plan

Answer 6

Using organized violence to intimidate black voters and also using fraud to guarantee Democrats would take control of the state government, started in Mississippi but many other states adopted the same plan

Question 7

Blanche Bruce

Answer 7

Only former slave to serve in the Senate