Southern Republicans
These people made up most of the Southern Republican Party.
Who were African Americans?
Reconstruction governments created this type of school system.
What are public, state-funded schools?
This group used violence to bring back white control.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
This crop became the main focus of southern farming.
What is cotton?
This major strike in 1877 showed worker anger in the North.
What is the railroad strike?
These white southerners supported change and economic growth.
Who were scalawags?
This unfair practice continued in the South even after reforms.
What is segregation?
These acts were passed to stop racial violence.
What were the Enforcement Acts?
Merchants loaned money to farmers for part of their future cotton in this system.
What is the crop-lien system?
This act gave land to help build the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
These northerners moved south to support reform.
Who were carpetbaggers?
This big project often caused corruption and didn’t help freedmen much.
What were railroad projects?
Northern support faded, leaving this group with less protection.
Who were African Americans?
Farmers grew cotton because they needed this to survive financially.
What is credit?
This group left the Republican Party in 1872 because they disliked Grant’s corruption.
Who were the Liberal Republicans?
Southern Republicans worked together to form this mixed political group.
What is a biracial coalition?
This group fought against Republican leaders and their reforms.
Who were white southerners?
These Supreme Court cases weakened the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases?
This happened to cotton prices, hurting farmers even more.
What is they dropped?
The Depression of 1873 started when this big company failed.
What was Jay Cooke & Company?
This problem made it hard for Southern Republicans to stay united.
What were the disagreements inside the party?
Reconstruction changes were weak because this was not strongly enforced.
What are civil rights laws?
These reports and sources showed real examples of violence and intimidation.
What are Klan hearings, Freedmen’s Bureau reports, and political cartoons?
These people became powerful by controlling credit and trade.
Who were merchants and landlords?
This deal in 1877 ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?