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4.3 Reconstruction
list of terms for vocabulary and what questions to put on your stacks
Question | Answer |
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Carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction. |
Scalawags | "Scoundrels"; name that former Confederates gave to 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 1870's. |
Ku Klux Klan | Secret society created by former Confederates in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil right. |
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 Tiden | Democrat of New York |
Rutherford B Hayes | Republican of Ohio |
Compromise of 1877 | Agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South. |
How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | They had political rights, and some amount of social services. provided by the Freedmen's Bureau. |
What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | the republican alliance |
How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | Ku Klux Act |
What historical era came to end in 1877? | reconstruction area |