Life After Emancipation
Besides homelessness, newly freed slaves also faced this economic condition.
What is Unemployment?
The Southern banking system was in this state after the war because of emancipation
What is ruined?
This political party was regaining power in the South by the 1870s
Who are the Democrats?
This was the number of Electoral College votes needed to win the disputed election
What is 185?
As part of the Compromise of 1877, this was forced out of the South
What is the military?
Many freedmen had little practical choice but to work for these people
Who are their former masters?
Banks were ruined because they lost this, which had been secured against enslaved people
what is collateral?
Radical Republicanism lost appeal because many of its leaders had done this
What is Died?
This disputed state had more ballots cast than there were eligible voters
What is South Carolina?
These laws were created after the compromise, segregating the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This holiday commemorates the day many enslaved people were told by Union soldiers they were free
What is Juneteenth?
Due to the disruption in cotton production, Britain switched to buying its cotton from this country
What is India?
Support for moderates was weakened when they were exposed to these during the Grant administration
What are Scandals?
This law proposed the committee to count the disputed returns.
What is the Electoral Commission Act?
This violent organization grew in presence in the South after the compromise.
What is the KKK?
A positive change for freedmen was that they were able to work these, compared to when they were enslaved.
What are shorter hours?
This economic system, the 'only solution,' employed 1/3 of the South by 1868
What is Sharecropping?
This financial crisis, blamed on President Grant, further weakened Republican support
what is the Economic Panic of 1873?
The Electoral Commission was composed of members from the House, the Senate, and this judicial body
What is the Supreme Court?
After the compromise, many of these people were elected to office in the South.
What are white southerners?
Freedmen gained the ability to choose where and with whom they did this
what is lived and worked with?
Sharecropping limited economic progress because ex-slaves lacked land, tools, seeds, and this
What is Money?
There was 'no desire' to send more of these people to the South to enforce black civil rights
what are white soliders/military?
This Republican candidate was ultimately elected president as part of the compromise
ho is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The Compromise of 1877 is often perceived as the end of this entire period
What is Reconstruction?