Why Such a Failure?
Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
What did people call Northerners and Southerners who tried to profit from the bad economy in the South after the Civil War? (2 names)
This amendment gave black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He was murdered, which allowed Andrew Johnson to become the president.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
These farmers never escaped poverty because they had to give most of their crops to the landowners, as rent.
Who were sharecroppers.
Intimidation, illiteracy and misinformation stopped many black men from doing this after the passing of the 15th Amendment.
What was vote?
Black codes, Jim Crow laws and the KKK are all examples of this.
What are some examples of racism in the U.S., after the Civil War?
This amendment made former slave U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He was a minstrel show character that was supposed to portray the typical African American after the Civil War.
Who was Jim Crow?
Middle class Northerners who tried to profit from the bad economy in the South by sometimes buying up cheap land from desperate Southerners.
Who were carpetbaggers?
These were local laws that were named after a racist character that was created by a minstrel show entertainer.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Destroyed infrastructure, lack of industrialization and widespread and inescapable poverty were all signs of this in the South, after the Civil War.
Why was the Southern economy in really bad shape after the Civil War?
Although it stopped slavery, the 13th Amendment still allowed this if it was punishment for a crime.
What is slavery or involuntary servitude?
A protestant who joined other far-right extremist in systematically and methodically terrorizing African Americans.
Who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan?
A Southern word that meant: worthless person.
What was a Scalawag?
Local laws developed after the Civil War (1865-1866) to control freed black people and ensure they provide cheap labor.
What were black codes?
He was a bitter, pushy, racist Southerner who became president when Lincoln was shot.
Who was President Andrew Johnson?
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 serves as this in relation to the 14th Amendment.
What is a template or outline?
After the Civil War, A person or family who worked on land that was owned by another and paid rent with a large part of their crops.
Who was a sharecropper?
These people were particularly hated by Southerners because they were seen as traitors, for they remained loyal to the Union.
Who were scalawags?
Unorganized hate-groups scattered around the South that threatened and terrorized black people.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
Lincoln-Johnson, the Southern Economy, sharecropping, racism (black codes, KKK), scalawags and carpetbaggers
What are the five reasons Reconstruction failed?
President Andrew Johnson responded this way to the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Who vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Northerners who moved South and tried to benefit from the challenging economic circumstances there.
Who were carpetbaggers?
These people charged their tenants very high rent in the form of large portions of their crops.
Who were sharecropping landlords?
Racist segregational practices in the South that lasted all the way until the 1960s.
What were Jim Crow laws?