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Influences from the North
The Southern Way of Life
Laws and the Courts
Economies
Miscellaneous
100
Named after the type of suitcase that they carried, these Northerners came to the South during Reconstruction for several reasons. Some came to help the South rebuild after the Civil War and some came to take advantage of a bad situation and tried to get rich quick or gain power or influence for themselves.
What are carpetbaggers?
100
The separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
100
The amendment that made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
After the Civil War, the condition of the economy in the South.
What is devastated?
100
After his election in 1877, Northern troops left the South and Reconstruction officially ended.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
200
This derogatory term was used to describe Southerners who cooperated with Northern agents or African Americans after the Civil War.
What is 'scalawag'?
200
These laws limited the rights of freed African Americans in the South.
What are Black Codes?
200
To charge an official with wrong doing.
What is impeach?
200
Two ways sharecropping was similar to slavery.
What is 1) African Americans were still farming land that did not belong to them (working for some one else) 2) African Americans were often trapped in a cycle of debt and so remained poor and unable to improve their life 3) African Americans were still working very hard as farmers
200
Two ways sharecropping was different from slavery.
What is 1) The tenant farmers were not owned by the land owners 2) The tenant farmers could sell their crop to make money 3) The tenant farmers were responsible for their own needs (clothing, food, housing, medicine)
300

These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics

What are the Radical Republicans

300
A system of farming that allowed freed men to rent and work a landowner's property in exchange for a portion of their crop. This system usually trapped the tenant farmer in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
300
The amendment that made all people born in the United States citizens of the United States (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
After the Civil War, the condition of the economy in the North.
What is growing?
300
Became President after Abraham Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
An agency established by the federal government to provide food, clothing, education, medical help, legal help and employment help for African Americans and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
Laws that legally separated or segregated blacks and whites. These laws created separate facilities such as restrooms, schools, hospitals, water fountains, etc. for each race.
What are "Jim Crow" Laws?
400
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (women, both black and white would have to wait another 62 years!).
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Two reasons why the Northern economy was prospering after the Civil War.
What is 1) the North had little rebuilding to do because few battles had been fought in the North 2) Northern factories had been busy throughout the war making supplies for the Union troops 3) Northern factories continued to be busy making supplies needed to rebuild the South
400

A decorated Civil War hero, this President served during the Reconstruction Era after President Johnson.

Who is Ulysses Grant?

500
One reason that Congress was angry about President Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
What is 1) Johnson pardoned Confederate leaders and allowed them back into state governments 2) Johnson vetoed laws designed to protect equal rights for African Americans
500
A secret group of white supremacists who terrorized southern Blacks in order to prevent them from exercising their rights (especially their right to vote).
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
500
This Supreme Court decision upheld the legality of segregation in the South. This decision coined the phrase "separate but equal".
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
Three reasons why the economy in South was in such bad shape after the Civil War.
What is 1) Most of the battles had been fought in the South and a lot of damage had been done to cities and infrastructure 2) Confederate money was worthless in the United States 3) Much of the wealth of the South had been held in the slaves who were now free 4) The cotton crop failed for several years after the Civil War
500
Two criteria established by Lincoln that a confederate state must meet before being allowed back in the Union.
What is 1) 10% of population must swear an oath of loyalty to the U. S. 2) ratificaion of the 13th Amendment