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Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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Carpetbaggers | a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. |
Scalawags | the name former confederates gave to the southern republicans during reconstruction. |
Enforcement Acts | three acts passed by congress allowing the government to use military force to stop violence against southern African Americans. |
Redeemers | democratic supporters of white controlled governments in the South during the 1870s |
Ku Klux Klan | secret society created by former confederates in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
Panic of 1873 | U.S. economic depression that distracted the republicans from reconstruction efforts. |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | law that prohibited business that served the public from discriminating against African Americans. |
Samuel J Tilden | Samuel Jones Tilden was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Presidency in the disputed election of 1876 |
Rutherford B Hayes | Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform |
Compromise of 1877 | It was a deal between Republicans and Southern Democrats to avoid a crisis because the Democrats were complaining about Hayes |
How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | the Reconstruction gave African Americans the freedom they wanted not so much as civil rights some were murdered to stop them from achieving civil rights. |
What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | White and African Americans formed parties as delegates representatives and other services to the political world. |
How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | They made an Act called the Enforcement Act it made three laws that empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force and prosecute guilty individuals. |
What historical era came to end in 1877? | The Reconstruction Era came to an end when the Republicans withdrew remaining troops from the South they were denied federal protection and the last governments fell. |