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4.3 Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carpetbaggers | they were northers that were republicans that move to the south during the revolutionary war |
| Scalawags | republicans of the south during the war |
| Enforcement Acts | these 3 laws empowered the federal government |
| Redeemers | democrats that were white in the south during 1870 |
| Ku Klux Klan | a group of white men who disliked the African American |
| Panic of 1873 | republican leaders came under pressure as workers threatened strikes and farmers demanded relief |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | promoted business that served the public |
| Samuel J Tilden | was a democrat from New York who ran for president |
| Rutherford B Hayes | Was a republican that was from Ohio and was also running for president. |
| Compromise of 1877 | the republicans agreed to withdraw the reaming federal troops from the south |
| How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | it helped them because it gave them more rights ans freedom |
| What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | they were called scalawags or scoundrels and they viewed them as southern renegades, betrayers of their race and country |
| How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | the African american damned that the congress do something to stop the the Klan so they created the Enforcement Acts |
| What historical era came to end in 1877? | the Compromise of 1877 |