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4.3
The reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carpetbaggers | lower class northern republicans that could carry all they had in a carpet bag-a type of cheap suitcase |
| Scalawags | Southern renegades,betrayers of their race and country |
| Enforcement Acts | Three laws empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force and to prosecute guilty individuals |
| Redeemers | the supporters of weight control government |
| Ku Klux Klan | Angry white southerners formed secret terrorist groups to prevent African Americans from voting |
| Panic of 1873 | A Particularly severe economic depression |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | prohibited all businesses from discriminating against African americans |
| Samuel J Tilden | A democrat presidential candidate |
| Rutherford B Hayes | A republican presidential candidate |
| Compromise of 1877 | To defuse the crisis,leading republicans and the southern democrats struck a deal |
| How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | The reconstruction gave them many civil rights |
| What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | carpetbaggers and scalawags made up the republican alliance |
| How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | The congress tock action in giving the African americans more rights |
| What historical era came to end in 1877? | The reconstruction era |
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