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4.3
Reconstruction in the south
Question | Answer |
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Carpet Baggers | Northern Republicans |
Scalawags | Southern Whites that supported Reconstruction |
Enforcement Acts | three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870-71 and the democrats called them the force acts and say that they threatened individual freedom |
Redeemers | were the southern burbon democrats |
Ku Klux Klan (kkk) | was founded in 1866 by six former confederates they were angry so now they formed a secret terrorist group to prevent blacks from voting. This grew quickly |
Panic of 1873 | Particularly severe economic depression |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | This bill prohibited businesses that served the public such as hotels and transportation services from discrimination against Blacks |
Samuel J. Tilden | In the presidential election against Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel is a Democrat |
Rutherford B Hayes | Running against Samuel J Tilden and is a Republican in the presidential thing |
Compromise of 1877 | To defuse the crisis, leading Republicans and Democrats struck in a deal |
How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans | They got more rights than normal |
What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction | Ku Klux Klan |
How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans | Beatings and murders increased and were committed by organized groups like the Ku Klux Klan, out-of-control mobs, and individual white Southern men. |
What historical era came to end in 1877 | The compromise that basically states that everybody is equal and they all have the same rights and responsiblities |