People
Southern whites who supported the Republican party
What are scalawags?
Another name for dishonest or illegal actions in government
What is corruption?
The Ku Klux Klan was formed in this state in 1865
What is Tennessee?
A fee required for voting
What is a poll tax?
The African Americans who became soldiers and served in segregated army units
What were the Buffalo Soldiers?
A secret society that used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
African American and White American children were kept in different schools. This was called....
What is segregation?
Some African Americans were able to buy land with the help of
What is the Freedmen's Bank?
Requiring potential voters to read and explain difficult parts of the Constitution to vote
What is a literacy test?
The courtcase about riding in a separate railroad car
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This former war hero won the election of 1868
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Landowners rented land to farmers
What is sharecropping?
A wave of fear and bankruptcy that set off a depression that lasted a decade
Laws that require whites and African Americans be separated in nearly every public place
What are Jim Crow laws?
Caused African American voting to decline sharply
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and threats of violence?
The Democrats who came to power in the South called themselves......
What are "Redeemers"?
Angry mobs killed people by hanging them
What is lynching?
This barred a state from denying some the right to vote based on race
What is the 15th Amendment?
The term "Exoduster" came from
What is the Book of Exodus in the Bible?
How the Klan dressed
What are white sheets with hoods covering their heads?
Northern whites who moved to the South after the war
What are Carpetbaggers?
Formerly enslaved people who left the South after the war
Who were the Exodusters?
This law allowed people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before
What is a Grandfather Clause?
Reconstruction helped the South rebuild its
What is economy?
The problems Grant had as a president
What are lack of political experience, scandal, and corruption?