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Pros and Cons
100
This was the name of the period where we were rebuilding the South and readmitting the Southern states into the Union.
What is Reconstruction? (Reconstruction Era)
100
A name give by former Confederates to Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction of the south.
What is a scalawag?
100

These states have 6 electoral votes in 1876.

What is California, Arkansas and Connecticut?

100
This president succeeded President Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
100
One of these did NOT improve the life of African Americans. a.Civil Rights Act 1866 b.Fourteenth Amendment c. Black Codes
What is the Black codes?
200
These were laws that were passed in the South after the Civil War. These laws were aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowed plantation owners to take advantage of the African American workers.
What are the Black Codes?
200
A tax a person pays in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
200

These were the names of the two candidates in the 1876 election.

Who are Hayes (republican) and Tilden (democrat)?

200

This amendment granted African Americans the right to franchise (vote).

What is the 15th Amendment?

200
This plan divided the Confederate states into military districts.
What is the Radical Republican Plan?
300
This is a system of farming in which a farmer works land for a land owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
300
This when a pardon (forgiveness) is granted to a large number of people.
What is amnesty?
300
8,430,783 was total of this type of vote.
What is the popular vote?
300
This is not a part of Congress a. Senate b. Supreme Court c. House of Representative
What is Supreme Court?
300
These were northerners who moved to the South to assist with Reconstruction.
What are Carpet Baggers?
400
This is the separation or isolation of a race, class or group.
What is segregation?
400

A Supreme Court case (1896) which ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as these facilities were equal.

What was Plessy vs Ferguson?

400
This was the margin of victory for Hayes, in other words the amount he won by in the electoral college.
What is 1 electoral vote?
400
This is the amount of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
400
This was a life that was not much better than slavery, African Americans had to share crops they grew with white land owners.
What is sharecropping?
500
A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level.
What is a literacy test?
500

The body of people representing the states of the U.S. who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

What is Electoral College?
500

These places were not states yet, they were not included in voting for the president. (3 of them must be in your question).

What are territories like Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Dakota, Montana, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico?

500
The southern governments created this test to prevent African Americans from voting.
What is the literacy (reading) test?
500
This provision allowed poor illiterate whites to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
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