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reconstructionquiz 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Reconstruction Act | South divided into military districts. South must accept black voting rights South must ratify the 14th Amendment. |
| Second Reconstruction Act | Ex-Rebels cannot vote on new state constitutions |
| Third Reconstruction Act | Only General-in-Chief (U.S. Grant) can remove district commanders. All three of these acts were vetoed by Andrew Johnson, but Congress overrode the vetoes) |
| Presidential Reconstruction (Under Johnson) | Rebels back in control of state governments. African Americans at the mercy of angry and vindictive. southern whites New Orleans and Memphis Race Massacres |
| Radical Reconstruction | 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment. Black voter participation skyrockets. African Americans elected to public office at state and national level |
| Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) | Waving the Bloody Shirt “Vote as you shot!” |
| Horatio Seymour (Democrat) | Appealed to white racial solidarity. Wanted to reverse Reconstruction |
| 1868 Presidential Election results | landslide Grant victory |
| Southern Perspectives | Southern view = Dark Age Felt A.As now dominated state governments |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved South after the war Sought opportunities and assisted freedmen Labeled by Southerners as low class dregs who profited off of southern misfortune |
| Scalawags | white Southerners who supported Republicans Seen as “race traitors” Ex. James Longstreet |
| Ku Klux Klan targeted | Politically active African Americans Any African American “not sufficiently subservient” Those who sought to better themselves economically, or acted as social equals with white Americans Republicans Republicans Schools and churches (burnt down) |
| Force Acts | effective in laying the groundwork for fair elections in the south (for a time). Made it a federal crime to prevent voting Required federal supervision of elections Military could seek and destroy the KKK |
| “Redeeming” the South | . Democrats “redeemed” the white south from republican and A.A control. |
| Sharecropping | Keep African Americans economically dependent on whites African Americans rented land on big plantations Split their crops with plantation owners Predatory contracts made saving money impossible |
| Crop Liens | Credit system for farmers Get in debt to buy farming equipment and resources Pay back debt with portion of crops Little money left over Repeat Cycle of debt |
| end of reconstruction | Majority of the north is not committed to black equality Didn't want to make the north attractive don't want to compete for jobs |
| civil Rights Act of 1875 | Out law discrimination in public accommodation |
| 1876 election | Rather B Hayes (Republican) V. Samuel S. Tilden (Democrat) |
| result of 1876 election | Tilden wins popular vote. initially 184 electoral votes Hayes wins 185–184. Reconstruction comes to an end |
| North got.... | Hayes as their president |
| South | Military withdraw home rule for the south |
| Reality Of southern view | Reality: A.A never made up more than 20% of state legislatures or 6% of congress (they were underrepresented)..Myth of A.A political domination enforced later Jim Crow laws |
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