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100
The main crop grown in the South.
What is cotton?
100
He became president in 1868.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Name for the deal that settled the election of 1876.
What is Compromise of 1877?
100
The amendment that prohibited slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Reconstruction began in this year, the year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
200
Farmers who had to give a portion of their crops to the land owner.
What are sharecroppers?
200
He was impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
Taxes on alcohol and tobacco used to pay off Civil War debts.
What are sin taxes?
200
The agency created to help educate blacks and provide clothing and food.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
The terrorist organization that targeted blacks, carpetbaggers, Catholics, Jews and other minorities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Form of farming in which farmers paid rent to a land owner to farm part of the land.
What is tenant farming?
300
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
300
The laws that discriminated against blacks during Reconstruction.
What are black codes?
300
The amendment that gave blacks the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
The politicians who wanted to penalize the former Confederate states the harshest.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
400
Condition in which farmers could not pay off their debts and so were tied to the land.
What is debt peonage?
400
Southern Republicans.
Who are scalawags?
400
Gaining money illegally through politics.
What is graft?
400
These served as meeting places and social gatherings for blacks in the South.
What are churches?
400
Percentage of citizens in former Confederate states who had to take a loyalty oath in order for the state to be able to create a new state government.
What is 10%?
500
The name for the transition in the South from strictly agriculture to industrialization.
What is the New South?
500
Became president in 1876 when neither candidate received enough electoral votes and a commission recommended he become president.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
500
This law granted citizenship to all Americans except Native Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
When a mob murders a person, as happened many times to blacks in the South.
What is lynching?
500
The number of military districts the South was divided into during Reconstruction.
What is five?