Life in the Post-War South
Clue: Over one-fifth of this group in the South died during the Civil War.
Answer: Who were Southern men of military age?
Clue: This belief romanticized the Confederacy and claimed the Southern cause was noble.
Answer: What is the Lost Cause?
Clue: After emancipation, formerly enslaved people were now LEGALLY able to do this.
Answer: What is marry legally?
Clue: This violent white supremacist group formed in Tennessee in 1866.
Answer: What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Clue: This economic crisis in 1873 weakened support for Reconstruction.
Clue: This economic crisis in 1873 weakened support for Reconstruction.
Clue: Approximately how many Southerners died during the Civil War?
Answer: What is about 260,000?
Clue: Cemeteries and memorial days were created to honor these fallen soldiers.
Answer: Who were Confederate soldiers?
Clue: Many freedmen left plantations and moved to these areas to find jobs.
Answer: What are cities?
Clue: Many early members of the KKK had previously served in this army.
Answer: What is the Confederate Army?
Clue: These laws passed in 1870 and 1871 were designed to stop KKK violence.
Answer: What are the Enforcement Acts?
Clue: After the war, many Southern women helped family members adjust to this new reality.
Answer: What is defeat in the Civil War?
Clue: This Confederate general became the most celebrated symbol of the Lost Cause.
Answer: Who is Robert E. Lee?
Clue: By 1877, over this many African Americans were enrolled in elementary schools.
Answer: What is about 600,000?
Clue: The KKK wore these to hide their identities.
Answer: What are robes?
Clue: This president was given power to use federal troops against the KKK.
Answer: Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Clue: Some Southerners hoped to rebuild their region under this idea of economic and social modernization.
Answer: What is the New South?
Clue: Some former Confederates moved to these three regions after the war.
Answer: What are Europe, Mexico, and Brazil?
Clue: African Americans formed these religious institutions that became centers of leadership and organization.
Answer: What are African American churches?
Clue: Between 1868 and 1871, thousands of people were killed through this violent practice.
Answer: What are lynchings?
Clue: This 1876 Supreme Court case limited federal power to prosecute KKK crimes.
Answer: What is U.S. v. Cruikshank?
Clue: Union General William T. Sherman is famous for destroying this type of Southern infrastructure during the war.
Answer: What are railroads?
Clue: Many Southern whites were angry about these two changes after the war.
Answer: What were freedmen gaining rights and Northern involvement in Southern politics?
Clue: African American ministers often became influential leaders in these two areas of society.
Answer: What are community leadership and politics?
Clue: The KKK used violence and intimidation primarily to stop these two groups from voting.
Answer: Who are African Americans and Republicans?
Clue: By 1877, this political group controlled all Southern state governments.
Answer: Who were Democrats?