Life after slavery
What amendments were added during the reconstruction era?
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What part of the house did Black representatives serve until 1874?
Lower house
What was the most know group of white terrorist?
Ku Klux Klan/KKK
What increased while the support of the Reconstruction decreased?
Violence
Who was America’s first Black female millionaire?
Madame C. J. Walker
What was the most successful thing that the Freedmen's Bureau provided?
Education
Black delegates helped what?
Expand democracy and improved life for African Americans in many ways.
What was the new agricultural labor system?
Sharecropping
What problems weakened the support for Reconstruction?
Economic
Name the explorer who reached the North Pole.
Matthew Henson
South's economy was badly what?
Crippled by the civil war
This association founded 7 black schools during reconstruction.
American Missionary Association
Tenant farmers grew what crops?
Anything they wanted
Enforcement Acts
Memoir writer and servant to the Lincoln family.
Elizabeth Keckley
Freed people took steps to gain what?
Respect and equality
Who were the 4 main prominent Black mean served in the Congress during reconstruction?
Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, Joseph Rainey, and Robert B. Elliott.
Why were southern blacks remain unhappy?
There was a widespread of poverty
Republicans began to what in the Reconstruction?
Lose faith
Inventor of a system for lubricating trains and factory machines.
Elijah McCoy
After slavery ended how did blacks want to be addressed?
Mr, Mrs, or Ms
In Georgia state legislature refused to let who take there seats?
The elected Black members
What caused cotton prices to fall?
Nationwide depression in 1873
What was the final blow to the reconstruction?
The presidential election of 1876
First African American poet to achieve widespread acclaim.
Paul Laurence Dunbar