Studied by 1 personDuring Reconstruction, African Americans played important roles as what?
Voters and Elected Officials.
In some states, their votes helped produce victories for who?
Republican candidates-including African American candidates.
For a short time, African Americans held the majority in the what?
Lower house of the South Carolina legislature.
Hiram Revels was who?
The first African American elected to the United States Senate
Blanche K. Bruce was who?
The first African American to serve a full term in the Senate
Some Southern whites supported the Republican Party. Former Confederates who held resentment against those who had been pro-Union called these people __________
Scalawags.
Republicans also had the support of many Northern whites who moved to the South after the war. White Southerners called them ________
Carpetbaggers
White Southerners accused Reconstruction governments of what?
Corruption
What is Corruption?
Dishonest or illegal actions.
A more serious danger to the freed people in the South were secret societies such as the ________
KKK
What is the KKK?
Used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women. Klan members threatened, beat, and killed thousands of African Americans and the whites who supported them.
Who supported the KKK?
Many Democrats, planters, and other white southerners
For many, ___________ was little better than slavery.
Sharecropping
Integrate means to what?
Unite or to blend into a whole
(Both Black and White. Usually for schools, but a lot of the schools didn’t follow this rule.)
Grant had led the North to victory in the Civil War. His reputation as a war hero carried him into the White House in the election of ______________
1868 and to reelection in 1872.
Southern Democrats worked hard to regain control of their state governments. They got help from groups such as the KKK, which terrorized who?
Republican, African Americans voters and others.
Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes won by one vote and due to his moderate attitude about Reconstruction, it effectively ________________
Ended Reconstruction.
Southern industries made great gains in the 1880’s. _________ sprang up across the region and became the leading industry of the New South.
Textile mills
The Fifteenth Amendment was what?
Barred a state from denying someone the right to vote because of race.
What were poll taxes?
A fee required for voting. Many African Americans could not afford to pay the tax, so they could not vote. This was put in place to get around the 15th Amendment in the South.
Southern state governments stopped African Americans from voting by using a poll tax and a literacy test. They allowed poor whites to vote by using the ______________
Grandfather Clauses.
By the late 1800’s segregation became common across the South, when their state governments created laws known as ___________
Jim Crow Laws
In the words of the great African American writer and civil rights leader ____________, “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.”
W.E.B. Du Bois.
Grandfather clause:
Allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted.
Lynching:
Angry mobs killed people by hanging them.
Buffalo soldiers:
The name native american tribes gave to African Americans Soldiers.
Exodusters:
Names given to African Americans who left the south during reconstruction
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