south during reconstruction

Question 1

what important roles did african americans play in in southern politics

Answer 1

voters and elected official

Question 2

who were scalawags

Answer 2

people in the south that supported republicans

Question 3

what does scalawags mean

Answer 3

scoundrel or worthless rascal

Question 4

who were carpet baggers

Answer 4

northern whites that moved to the south

Question 5

what is corruption

Answer 5

dishonest or illegal action

Question 6

who refused credit to african americans

Answer 6

store owners

Question 7

who were the ku klux klan

Answer 7

secret societies that used fear and vilence to deny the rights of freed people

Question 8

who supported the KLan

Answer 8

democrats, planters, and white southerners

Question 9

what did Congress pass in 1870 and 1871

Answer 9

several laws to stop Klan violence

Question 10

what did reconstruction governments create in the 1870

Answer 10

public schools for black and whites

Question 11

what did the adcademies that northernes set up in the south grow into

Answer 11

colleges and universities for African Amercians

Question 12

what happens in sharecropping

Answer 12

landowners rent land to sharecroppers(farmers) so that the sharecropper gives a portion of their crops to the landowner

Question 13

what plagued ulysses s. grant presidency

Answer 13

scandal and corruption

Question 14

what began during Ulysses’s second term

Answer 14

a severe economic depresssion

Question 15

what was the Panic of 1873

Answer 15

a wave of fear that was triggered by a powerful banking firm declaring bankruptcy

Question 16

what happened in the 1874 congressional elections

Answer 16

the democrats won back control of the House of Representatives

Question 17

what did democrats in the south call themselves

Answer 17

“redeemers”

Question 18

who were the candidates of the election of 1876

Answer 18

Rutherford B. Hayes(Republicans) and Samuel tilden(Democrat)

Question 19

who won the election of 1876

Answer 19

rutherford b. hayes

Question 20

what dit the republicans do to ensur their win

Answer 20

make many promises to the democrats, such as removing the troops that had been stationed in the south at the end of the civil war

Question 21

what were foward-looking southerners covince of by the 1800s

Answer 21

they must deveoleop an industrial economy

Question 22

who was Henry Grady

Answer 22

an atlanta newspaper editor that urged southeners to build a “new south”

Question 23

what would tghe “new south” have

Answer 23

iundustries based on coal, iron, tobbaco, cotton, and lumber

Question 24

what sprang up across the south in the 1880s

Answer 24

textile mills

Question 25

who was the American Tobbaco Company mostly developed by

Answer 25

James Duke of North Carolina

Question 26

what helped development in the soth

Answer 26

the railroad sytem is nearly rebuilt, so a railroad-building boom

Question 27

what remained the souths main economic activity

Answer 27

agriculture

Question 28

what caused debt

Answer 28

poor farmers use credit to buy supplies, merchants ho provide the credit charge high prices, farmes debts arise, farmers look to cash crops(cotton) to repay debt, higher cotton production drives cotton prices down, lower prices mean farmers produce more cotton, prevention of development

Question 29

what did debt cause

Answer 29

problems

Question 30

what were ways that white southen leaders prevented voting to African Americans

Answer 30

poll tax(fee for voting), literacy test,

Question 31

what did states pass to ensure that whites could vote

Answer 31

grandfather clauses( people could vote if their fathers or grandfathers had before reconstruction)

Question 32

what were Jim Crow laws

Answer 32

laws passed in the south that enforced segragation

Question 33

what was lynching

Answer 33

a form of violence in which a mob hang people

Question 34

who were “Exodusters”

Answer 34

former salves that left the south during reoncstruction

Question 35

who were buffalo soldiers

Answer 35

african Americans that escaped the south by enroling in the army