| A | B |
|---|
| Northern who moved to the South looking or financial gain | Carpetbagger |
| Citizens from the South who sympathized with the Republican Party and Reconstruction | Scalawags |
| Why were people from the North coming to the South? | Looking for cheap land. |
| Why were people able to get land cheap after the Civil War? | Land was destroyed from all of the fighting and people who owned the land had died in the war |
| What is the period after the Civil War called? | Reconstruction |
| What was the purpose of Reconstruction? | Bring the South back into the country |
| What are the 3 Civil War amendments? | 13, 14, 15 |
| What group opposed the idea of Reconstruction? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What was some of the goals of the Ku Klux Klan? | Destroy the Republican Party, stop reconstruction, aid the farmers in the South |
| What did Amendment 13 say? | Ended Slavery |
| What did Amendment 15 say? | Could not deny someone the right to vote based on race. |
| Since the Ku Klux Klan couldn't deny people the right to vote based on race how did they try to keep blacks down? | They refused to hire them and they put conditions on voting |
| Landowners dividing up their land to freed slaves and giving them seed and tools to farm | Sharecropping |
| Why was this better than slavery? | Ability to improve their lives and their families lives |
| Why does sharecropping fall apart? | People want to own their own land |
| Why did freed slaves and poor whites do sharecropping? | Need for money |
| What was the relationship between Johnson and the Congress | Poor |
| What is impeachment? | Bringing of charges against a President |
| What charge did Congress bring against Johnson? | Violation of the Tenure of Office Act |
| What are the two parts of impeachment? | Bringing the charges and removal |
| How many Presidents have been impeached? | 2 |
| What supported education for black people to achieve equality? | Booker T. Washington |
| Who support a more aggressive path to equality for black people? | W.E.B. Dubois |
| What court case violated the separation of the races? | Plessey vs. Ferguson |
| What did Plessey vs Ferguson say? | Separate is equal as long as both have the physical structure |
| Black Codes | laws that restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans |
| Jim Crow Laws | State and local laws between 1876-1965 that ensured racial segregation (public schools, public places, public transportation, etc.) |
| Poll Tax | used in the south mainly to keep African Americans from voting |
| Literacy Test | Used in the south to determine a person’s ability to vote. Another way for the south to hinder the African American’s right to vote |
