Review for Quiz #3 Notes 6-10

Click for Answer What was the name of the economic plan to help land owners and former slaves make money, but ultimately created a life of debt for former slaves? Sharecropping

Click for Answer Once reconstruction was over, who went BACK to controlling southern state governments? Southern Democrats

Click for Answer What was the name of one of the subversive or discriminatory groups that terrorized African Americans during Reconstruction? Ku Klux Klan (KKK); you could also say Knights of the White Camilia

Click for Answer For their part of the Compromise of 1877, what did the Democrats agreed to support? They agreed to support voting for a Republican president (Rutherford B. Hayes)

Click for Answer Who wanted to quickly re-establish cotton production to keep their superior position and dominate politics? The Southern elite

Click for Answer Eventually Reconstruction comes to an end because the Northerners lost interest in paying these which supported the rebuilding of the South ? taxes

Click for Answer What insect destroyed cotton crops? Boll weevil

Click for Answer For their part of the Compromise of 1877, what did the Republicans agreed to support? They supported removing the troops from the south

Click for Answer Discriminatory groups believed in this idea of superiority and tried to keep African Americans and other groups from having equality. White supremacy

Click for Answer Jim Crow Laws or “separate but equal” laws (also called segregation laws) Black Codes were replaced by which laws after the Plessy v Ferguson Court case ?

Click for Answer What did some African Americans have to pay before they were able to vote? A poll tax (payment)

Click for Answer Most of the country became more industrialized in the late 1800s, but the South remained in what kind of industry? ? Agriculture

Click for Answer What was the intention (purpose) of the “grandfather clause”? If your father/grandfather voted before 1867, you could vote. But no AA had the right to vote, so it was a way to keep them from voting

Click for Answer What would be an example of a Jim Crow law? AA had separate schools, churches, transportations, entrances to businesses, water fountains= just to name a few

Click for Answer Why did subversive groups like the Knights of the White Camellia target African Americans during Reconstruction? To keep AA in an inferior place in society, to keep AA from voting or having any of their rights

Click for Answer What effect did Jim Crow laws have on race relations in the South? It created decades of “separate but equal” for blacks and whites to keep them segregated

Click for Answer What were some methods used by the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate African Americans ? The physically beat AA, burned crosses in their yards and churches, lynched them

Click for Answer Which workers were first attracted to and were hired to work in textile factories? White farm workers

Click for Answer Why did southern landowners enter into sharecropping agreements with freedmen? They needed workers to work their crops since they no longer had slaves

Click for Answer How did the working and living conditions of African Americans change as a result of their new freedom? They could decide if the women and children worked in the crops or not; they moved away from the plantation house; they built communities around the church

Click for Answer What did landowners need after the war was over? They needed workers since slavery was abolished

Click for Answer What did newly freed slaves need after the war was over? They needed a place to live and a job to make money for their family

Click for Answer What did the landowner provide is most sharecropping agreements? They provided the land/crops, the tools, all the supplies, as well as a place for the worker to live

Click for Answer What did the worker provide in most sharecropping agreements ? They provided the workforce or labor for the landowner

Click for Answer What was the result of the sharecropping agreement after the crops were sold at the market? The landowner received his portion; if the crops were plentiful, then hopefully the worker received his part too. But often times, he didn’t and owed the landowner more money

Click for Answer Name a positive and a negative POLITICAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans Positive- they had the right to vote and some held political jobs; they voted for Republicans who helped them Negative- they were kept from voting; Black Codes and eventually Jim Crow Laws were passed;

Click for Answer Name a positive and a negative ECONOMICAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans Positive- became sharecroppers as a way to make $$; could decide if women/children worked the fields; Negative- were never allowed to own land; sharecropping often put them back in debt to landowners,

Click for Answer Name a positive and a negative SOCIAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans Positive- reunited they families; married; built communities around the church; Negative- were never seen as equals to Southern elite; experienced violence from groups like KKK to keep them inferior