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What term referred to pro-Union Southerners?
SCALAWAGS
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What was the only state during Reconstruction that elected an African American to the US Senate?
MISSISSIPPI [HIRAM REVELS LIVED IN LEAVENWORTH]
100
How did the Democrats take over black-majority states like Mississippi and South Carolina?
KKK TERROR
100
In what Southern state did African Americans have the most political power?
CONTROLLED ON HOUSE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE
100
How could white Southerners make life difficult for [voting] freedmen they did not like?
REFUSE TO RENT LAND, EXTEND CREDIT, OR HIRE
200
Why did Democrats and planters support the KKK?
DEFENSE AGAINST REPUBLICAN RULE IN THE SOUTH
200
About what percent of black/white Southern children were enrolled in school because of Reconstruction?
40/50%, RESPECTIVELY
200
What was banned by both the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Reconstruction Act?
CONFEDERATE LEADERS FROM HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE
200
How are sharecroppers paid?
WITH A SHARE OF THE CROP
200
Why did Grant’s election make the Republicans eager to pass the Fifteenth Amendment?
NEEDED BLACK VOTE IN SOUTHERN STATES TO WIN, THEREFORE, BLACK VOTING RIGHTS MUST BE GUARANTEED AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO OVERTURN AN AMENDMENT
300
What are two reasons that the Liberal Republicans split from the regular Republican Party?
CORRUPTION AND A DESIRE FOR PEACEFUL RECONCILIATION
300
What was guaranteed by both?
VOTING RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN
300
What were Fisk and Morehouse?
TRADITIONAL BLACK COLLEGES
300
Why wasn’t Johnson removed from office after he was impeached? [Why is Edmond Ross significant?]
DIDN’T HAVE THE NECESSARY 2/3 VOTE IN THE SENATE [ROSS WAS THE ONLY RADICAL REPUBLICAN—FROM KANSAS—WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT]
300
What did the Amnesty Act do?
PARDONED ALMOST ALL FORMER CONFEDERATES
400
How did Republicans gain control of Southern state governments?
WHITE SOUTHERNERS REFUSED TO VOTE AND AFRICAN AMERICANS DID VOTE
400
What are three reasons why enthusiasm for Reconstruction declined during Grant’s administration?
RADICAL REPUBLICANS BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR; RACIAL PREJUDICE; SOUTH SHOULD SOLVE ITS OWN PROBLEMS
400
How did Johnson violate the Tenure of Office Act?
FIRED SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON
400
What happened when Jay Cooke and Company declared bankruptcy?
PANIC OF 1873
400
at party controlled the Southern states where whites were in the majority?
DEMOCRATS
500
Who was hurt by political scandals in 1873?
REPUBLICANS
500
Under the Tenure of Office Act, what did a president need to fire a cabinet member?
SENATE CONSENT
500
Who was blamed for the hard times following the Panic of 1873?
REPUBLICANS
500
Who did the Liberals nominate for president?
HORACE GREELEY
500
What is a carpetbagger?
WHITE NORTHERNERS WHO CAME SOUTH AFTER THE WAR FOR OPPORTUNITIES
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