Section 3

Question 1

what are carpetbaggers?

Answer 1

republicans that supposedly rushed to the south carrying all their possessions in bags made from carpeting.

Question 2

How did southerner democrats feel about scalawags?

Answer 2

felt they where greedy rascals and believed that these southerners had betrayed the south by voting for the republican party.

Question 3

who is James Alcorn?

Answer 3

Mississippi governor former member of the whig party

Question 4

what was the largest group of southerner REPUBLICAN

voters?

Answer 4

AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question 5

Hiram Revels

Answer 5

was born free in north Carolina went to college became methodist minister and served as a chaplain in the union army.

Question 6

who is blanche k. bruce

Answer 6

important republican in Mississippi and served one term as senator.

Question 7

what did reconstruction governments provide?

Answer 7

provided money for new programs and organizations int the south. helped establish state first public school systems in the south. built hospitals, prisons, and orphanages. passed new laws prohibiting discrimination against AAs. they aided the construction of bridges, railroads, and public buildings.

Question 8

what is the kkk ?

Answer 8

a secret society that opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage for AA.

Question 9

what did the KKK do and how did they wear?

Answer 9

the kkk used violence and terror against AAs.
klan members wore robes
attacked and murder republican whites, public officials and AAs

Question 10

when did the kkk usually attack?

Answer 10

AT NIGHT

Question 11

what did congress do to hinder the KKK?

Answer 11

the federal gov took action. congress passed laws that made it a federal crime to interfere with elections or to deny citizens equal protection under the law

Question 12

what happened during the 1870s

Answer 12

KKK no longer a threat BUT groups of whites continued to assult AA and republicans throughout the 1870s

Question 13

which party began to lose power

Answer 13

Republicans

Question 14

what is the general amnesty act of 1872

Answer 14

allowed former confederates, except those who had held high ranks, to serve in congress.

Question 15

what two political scandels happened during grants term

Answer 15

1- a gold-buying scheme grants cousin a leading role led to a brief crisis on the stock market called black Friday.

2- his personal secretary was involved in the whiskey distillers and public officials worked together to steal liquor taxes from the federal gov

Question 16

panic of 1873

Answer 16

when cooke and company, a major investor in railroads and the largest financier of the Union’s civil war effort, declared bankruptcy. the company had lied about the value of land along the side f the northern PAcific railroad that it owned and was trying to sell. when truth leaked company failed.

Question 17

cvil rights act of 1874

Answer 17

guaranteed AA equal rights in public places, such as theaters and public transportation

Question 18

compromise of 1877

Answer 18

the democrats agreed to except Hayes victory , in return they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the south.

Question 19

in the compromise of 1877 what did the south ask for?

Answer 19

asked for funding for internal improvements in the south and the appt of a southern democrats to president cabinet

Question 20

who or what are redeemers

Answer 20

democrats who brought their party back to power in the south were called redeemers

Question 21

what did redeemers wanna do

Answer 21

they wanted to reduce size of state gov
limit the rights of AA
lowered state budgets
got rid of a variety of social programs