The South During Reconstruction

For a short time, African Americans held the majority in the lower house of what state legislature?

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Alabama

• Kentucky

Scalawags were.

• Slave owners who were pro-Union.

• Non-Union slave owners.

• Pro-Union business leaders and farmers who had not owned slaves.

• Carpetbaggers who were pro-Union

Carpetbaggers is a term that referred to

• dirty carpet that white southerners carried with them to the south.

• Unwanted northerners who cleaned carpet.

• Scalawags who traveled to the south looking for higher wages.

• Cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric-what white southerners might have thought untrustworthy newcomers might carry.

Land owners rented land to______________. And they gave the owners a percentage of their crops.

• Whites

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers and farmers

• Klu Klux Klan

Most whites Southerners did not want African Americans to have more rights.

• True

• False

African Americans made gains in higher education in the south. Northerners set up academics in the south. These academics grew into a network of colleges and universities for African Americans.

• True

• False

Sharecropping was much better than slavery.

• True

• False

No Democrats or planters supported the Klan.

• True

• False

Most schools were integrated during reconstruction.

• True

• False

Bonus - What type of toys does Mr. Grant collect.

• Video Games

• Remote control cars

• Action Figures

• Legos