test 2/20

Question 0

ku klux klan

Answer 0

• secret organization of white extremists
• formed by southerners
• purpose- harass and harm blacks to obstruct their participation in gov.

Question 1

freedoms bureau

Answer 1

• established March 3rd, 1865

* issued rations, clothing and medicine to freed blacks

Question 2

sharecroppers

Answer 2

• farmer who rents or does not own land
• loaned necessary supplies to work land
• receives a portion of the profit after paying fees to land owner
• LEGAL SLAVERY

Question 3

who takes place of Abe Lincoln after war?

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson

Question 4

brooks/Baxter war

Answer 4

• both had organized militia units
• from April to May 15th: 200 people killed
• increased internal bickering, weakening Republican Party
• republican reconstruction on the decline

Question 5

radical reconstruction

Answer 5

goal- punish the south
• all adult males could vote
• US army officers registered voters
• white males had to take the Iron Clad Oath (say you’ll never be a confederate again)

Question 6

3 goals of farmer slaves

Answer 6

1. own farming land
2. good and better schools
3. legal protection

Question 7

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 7

• Supreme Court ruling in 1896: SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

* segregation of schools, transportation and housing

Question 8

agricultural wheel

Answer 8

organization to try to get blacks to farm so they would have more numbers

Question 9

timber industry

Answer 9

• # 1 industry during reconstruction
• employed 3/4 of non- farmers
• 6 men created an organization called “concatenated order of Hoo-Hoo”

Question 10

Jim Crow laws

Answer 10

• laws destroyed to keep blacks out of politics
• put out a literacy test
• required a dollar poll tax
• blacks couldn’t vote in primary election

Question 11

what happened after 1874?

Answer 11

• Democratic Party controlled AR
• state debt really high
- general assembly voted to cut debt 
- people who bought bonds lost money
- prison inmates were leased out to work for businesses/ industry's

Question 12

redeemers

Answer 12

name taken by Democrats Who came to power followingThe Brooks/Baxter war, ending reconstruction

Question 13

1874 constitution

Answer 13

• written directly from the difficulties of radical reconstruction
• made it difficult to raise taxes
• reduction of governor’s power

Question 14

radicals in AR

Answer 14

• republicans controlled state gov.
• Powell Clayton elected gov.
• blacks, Scali wags, and carpetbaggers held power
  GOALS:
• economic progress (building railroads)
• public education (1st college AEU)

Question 15

why did reconstruction start?

Answer 15

General assembly refused to accept 14th amendment and refused to honor blacks