Vocab
African American's hardships
Type of People
The "New South"
Extra Hard Questions
100
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group.
What is segregation?
100
This tax that a person must pay in order to vote restricted many poor African Americans from voting.
What is a poll tax?
100
This name was given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South.
What is a scalawag?
100
The New South's industries were based on these resources.
What are coal, iron, tobacco, cotton, and lumber?
100
This case ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to public places equal to those of whites.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
Putting to death by the illegal action of a mob.
What is lynching?
200
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?
200
Republican-supporting Northern whites who moved to the South after the war.
What are carpetbaggers?
200
This company in North Carolina did nearly all the tobacco manufacturing in the country.
What is the American Tobacco Company?
200
Reconstruction helped rebuild the South's economy, yet much of it still was based on this.
What is agriculture?
300
To unite, or to blend into a united whole.
What is to integrate?
300
These segregation laws allowed African Americans to be segregated as long as the facilities were equal to those as whites.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
300
Formerly enslaved people who began to leave the South and migrate to the Midwest during Reconstruction.
What are Exodusters?
300
In 1890, the South produced nearly this percent of the Nation's iron and steel.
What is 20%?
300
Scandals plagued this president's administration.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
Dishonest or illegal actions.
What is corruption?
400
This group of people terrorized African Americans, and used fear to prevent them from voting, etc...
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
African Americans who escaped the South by becoming soldiers. They served in segregated army units and fought in the West Indian Wars from 1867-1896.
What are Buffalo soldiers?
400
This form of transportation was rebuilt and was nearly doubled in amount of mileage in 1870-1890.
What is railroads?
400
This Ohio governor barely won the Presidential Election of 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
System of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds but requires a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
500
This was a loophole for poor, illiterate white men to vote, but still preventing African Americans from voting.
What are Grandfather Clauses?
500
The Democrats who came to power in the South that had claimed to have saved their states from "black Republican" rule.
What are Redeemers?
500
These two port cities prospered because of demand for their lumber products.
What is Jacksonville and Pensacola?
500
When a powerful banking firm declared bankruptcy, this wave of fear triggered the depression that lasted most of the decade.
What is the Panic of 1873?
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