Scalawag or Carpetbagger
Definitions
Main Ideas
Important People- Amendments
100
Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War
What are the Carpetbaggers?
100
dishonest or illegal actions
What is corruption?
100
During Reconstruction, African Americans in large numbers were able to vote and _______ for the first time.
What is serve in government?
100
first African American elected to the United States Senate
Who is Hiram Revels?
200
Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction
What are Scalawags?
200
to unite, or blend into a united whole
What is integrate?
200
Most newly freed African American voters supported the __________Party.
What is Republican?
200
first African American senator to serve a full term
Who is Blanche Bruce?
300
Typically business leaders and farmers who had not owned slaves
What are Scalawags?
300
The opposite of integration
What is segregation?
300
Although African Americans gained many legal rights, _______ and _______ were used in the South to prevent these new freedoms
What are corruption and violence?
300
ended slavery
What is 13th Amendment?
400
Means “scoundrel” or “worthless rascal”
What are Scalawags?
400
system of farming where a farmer works the land for an owner who provided equipment and seeds. In turn, the owner received a share of the crops
What is sharecropping?
400
At one point, but only for a short time, African American’s held a majority of elected positions in South Carolina’s ______ legislature.
What is state legislature?
400
granted African American men the right to vote
What is 15th Amendment?
500
Carpetbaggers supported _______ _______ .
What is Republican Reconstruction?
500
Many felt that the arrangement in _________ was unfairly practiced and little better than slavery.
What is sharecropping?
500
Out of all the southern states, ____ and ____had the most elected African American delegates.
What are South Carolina and Louisiana?
500
granted citizenship to African Americans
What is 14th Amendment?
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