4.3 Reconstruction Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Carpetbaggers | Northern republicans . |
Scalawags | What the southern whites were called. |
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 . |
Ku Klux Klan | A secret terrorist group that was filled angry white southerners to prevent African Americans from voting . |
Panic of 1873 | economic depression. |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 | A bill prohibited businesses that served the public such as hotels and transportation from discriminating against the African .Americans. |
Samuel J Tilden | was a democrat that was pitted in the presidential election. |
Rutherford B Hayes | Was a republican that was in the presidential election. |
Compromise of 1877 | In return for the democrat's acceptance of Hayes as president, the republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the south . |
How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | It allowed the free slaves the right to vote and to allow them to be U.S citizens and the rights of citizens. |
What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | A group of African Americans formed a group to stop the Ku Klux Klan |
How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | They released the enforcement act which empowered the federal government to combat terrorism. |
What historical era came to end in 1877? | A compromise that withdrew the remaining federal troops from the south . |
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Luke Rasberry
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