Influences from the North
The Southern Way of Life
Laws and the Courts
Economies
Miscellaneous
100

Named after the type of suitcase that they carried, these Northerners came to the South during Reconstruction for several reasons. Some came to help the South rebuild after the Civil War and some came to take advantage of a bad situation and tried to get rich quick or gain power or influence for themselves.

What are carpetbaggers?

100
The separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
100
The amendment that made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
After the Civil War, the condition of the economy in the South.
What is devastated?
100

What is Juneteenth?

A holiday celebrating the freedom of African Americans in the South, specifically when union soldiers arrived in Galveston Texas in 1865. 

200
This derogatory term was used to describe Southerners who cooperated with Northern agents or African Americans after the Civil War.
What is 'scalawag'?
200
These laws limited the rights of freed African Americans in the South.
What are Black Codes?
200

How many Reconstruction amendments were passed?

Three. The 13th, 14th and 15th. Free, Citizens, Vote!

200

List one way sharecropping was similar to slavery.

What is 1) African Americans were still farming land that did not belong to them (working for some one else) 2) African Americans were often trapped in a cycle of debt and so remained poor and unable to improve their life 3) African Americans were still working very hard as farmers

200

Who are the two team playing in tonight's NCAA basketball Championship.

University of Florida and University of Houston

300
After the Civil War, the South was divided into ____________________ and occupied by Northern soldiers to make sure that Blacks could exercise their new rights and freedoms.
What are 5 military zones?
300
A system of farming that allowed freed men to rent and work a landowner's property in exchange for a portion of their crop. This system usually trapped the tenant farmer in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
300
The amendment that made all people born in the United States citizens of the United States (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th Amendment?
300

The Southern economy during Reconstruction was largely dependent on this crop, which was cultivated by both free and former enslaved laborers.

What is cotton?

300
Became President after Abraham Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
An agency established by the federal government to provide food, clothing, education, medical help, legal help and employment help for African Americans and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
Laws that legally separated or segregated blacks and whites. These laws created separate facilities such as restrooms, schools, hospitals, water fountains, etc. for each race.
What are "Jim Crow" Laws?
400
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (women, both black and white would have to wait another 62 years!).
What is the 15th Amendment?
400

This Southern economic recovery effort focused on rebuilding infrastructure, such as railroads and factories, but it was also hindered by resistance from both white Southerners and the lack of investment.

Reconstruction

400

What did southern states have to do to rejoin the union?

 ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, write new constitutions, and apologize for seceding.

500

Reason for Radical republicans were upset with President Andrew Johnson?

Johnson was too lenient on the south during reconstruction. 

500
A secret group of white supremacists who terrorized southern Blacks in order to prevent them from exercising their rights (especially their right to vote).
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
500

Which president was impeached during Reconstruction?

Andrew Johnson

500
Three reasons why the economy in South was in such bad shape after the Civil War.
What is 1) Most of the battles had been fought in the South and a lot of damage had been done to cities and infrastructure 2) Confederate money was worthless in the United States 3) Much of the wealth of the South had been held in the slaves who were now free 4) The cotton crop failed for several years after the Civil War
500

What years did Reconstruction take place? Give me a range.

1865-1877

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