Conditions in the Postwar South
What side faced the most difficulty's after the war
Who is the South/Confederate
Which amendment gained voting rights for African Americans
What is the fifteenth
What did many African Americans do during the Reconstruction with there new freedom
What is go searching for loved ones
What did General Sherman promise the freed slaves who followed his army
What is 40 acres and an army mule
Democrats, opposed to the Republicans' plan for Reconstruction, called white Southerners who joined the Republican Party
What is Scalawag
What was the estimate amount of money that Union troops destroyed in Confederate property
What is 100 million dollars
How did people get the name carpetbagger
What is northerners would carry all they could in a carpetbag
What did some Southerners do when they found out African Americans can get education
What is killing some African Americans
What did Congress do when African Americans asserted that they deserve part of the planters land
What is rejected land-reform proposals/ passed weak legislation
Northerners who moved to the South after the war
What is a carpetbagger
True or False Southerners of every economic class were richer then they were before the war
What is False
About how much did qualified African Americans vote
What is about 90%
About how much did African Americans spend on education
What is around $1 million
What did the planter class want to do with plantation system
Landowners would give workers a few acres with seed and tools and at Harvest times the workers would give a share of there crop to the landowner
What is Sharecropping
What year did the former Confederate states reentered the Union
When is 1868
What party did African Americans vote for during Reconstruction
Who is the Republican party
What year did most of the Republican Southern states governments repeal the black codes
When is 1866
What did President Johnson order the original landowners be allowed to reclaim
What is their land and evict the former slaves
Landowners would rent land for cash and the farmers would keep all their harvest
What is Tenant farming
What did they build in the South the most Southern states had ever had
What is a public school system
True or False some scalawags shared the Republican commitment to civil rights, and later returned to the Democratic Party
What is True
What year did Texas and other states pass a law prohibiting railroads from making distinction between different colored passengers
When is 1871
What jobs did former slaves begin working at
What is mills, railroad construction crew, and subsistence farming
The first African-American senator
Who is Hiram Revels