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40 Acres and a Mule
The Contract System
The Economics of Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan
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Man who proposed to give 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves
What is General Sherman
100
Who was the contract system meant to "help"
What is freed African American slaves
100
seeds and tools
What is provided by landowners
100
Ku Klux Klan wore
What is hoods
100
in 1880 5.9 million black farmers farmed what?
What is cotton
200
meaning of land to the freed African American slaves
What is economic independence
200
Range of wages the African Americans gained from the Contract System
What is very low wages
200
Landowners taking most of the crops
What is farmers not treated fairly?
200
Kill blacks and white republicans
What is what the Ku Klux Klan do?
200
To be hanged with out proper trial
What is Lynch
300
names of the radical republicans that wanted to give freed slaves the land of old plantation owners
What is Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
300
African Americans signing Contracts, but not getting the right amount of money back
What is abused and cheated workers?
300
No money left for farmers
What is after Harvest Time
300
Number of men that started the Ku Klux Klan
What is 6 men
300
Arrangment under which poor farmers were given seeds. tools, and land to tend to from land owners in exchange for a fraction their harvest
What is Sharcropping
400
Freed slave that thought the 40 acres was at least enough
What is Bayley Wyat
400
Many African African American turned to sharecropping because they were abused and cheated for volenteering
What is turning to sharcropping mean?
400
for their family
What is farmers wanting to grow food
400
Range of poor farmers, to rich southerners
What is the members of the Ku Klux Klan
400
length the Ku Klux Klan lasted
What is it is still going on
500
land that the African Americans gained
What is taken away by the old land owners
500
the reason freed slaves could choose thier own landowners
What is The Contract System
500
gave most crops to land owners
What is harvest time
500
Candestine organization that used aggression to keep African Americans powerless and attempted to re-establish Democratic control of the South.
What is Ku Klux Klan
500
The type of white men the Ku Klux Klan murdered
What is Radical Republicans