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4.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carpetbaggers | northern republicans eager to participate in the state conventions |
| Scalawags | southern whites who backed the union cause |
| Enforcement Acts | three laws that allowed the federal goverment to combat terorism with military force |
| Redeemers | supporters of white controlled goverments |
| Ku Klux Klan | terrorist group to prevent african americans from voting |
| Panic of 1873 | severe economic depression |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | bill that prohibited buisnesses that serve the public from discrimanating aginst african americans |
| Samuel J Tilden | democrat who ran for president |
| Rutherford B Hayes | republican who ran for president |
| Compromise of 1877 | unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election |
| How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | it improved their life from former slaves and opened more oppertunities for them |
| What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | The Whigs, Democrats, & Free-Soilers |
| How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | they responded with the enforcement acts |
| What historical era came to end in 1877 | the reconstruction era ended in 1877 |