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4.3 Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carpetbaggers | a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections |
| Scalawags | A person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous way rather than harmful |
| Enforcement Acts | Bills passed in 1870- 1871, which protected African American rights to vote. |
| Redeemers | White southern democrats who aimed to put an end to Reconstruction and Biracial governments and restore the Democratic Party to the south |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret hate group in the Southern U.S. active for several years after the Civil war. |
| Panic of 1873 | A financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and the United States. |
| Civil Rights of 1875 | also known as Enforcement acts protects all citizens in civil and legal rights |
| Samuel J Tilden | 25th governor of new York and the Democratic Candidate for the disputed election of 1876 |
| Rutherford B Hayes | 19th President of the united states. was president at teh end of the reconstruction era. |
| Compromise of 1877 | The compromise of 1877 settled the dispute of the heated election of 1876. Rutherford B Hayes became president but the republicans had to withdrawal of federal troops |
| How did reconstruction affect the lives of African Amercans | African Americans were forced to use different facilities but the 13th and 14th amendment were used to help their lives |
| What groups formed a Republican alliance in the south during reconstructuion | Carpetbaggers Scalawags and African Americans |
| How did congress respond to violence against African Americans | Congress didn't do anything |
| What historical era came to end in 1877 | The Reconstruction Era. |