Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz

The informal agreement made due to disputes over the results of the Presidential election of 1876. President Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to remove all federal troops from the south, ending Military Reconstruction.

• Compromise of 1877

• Compromise of 1850

• Military Deconstruction

• Military Reconstruction

The results of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868. These acts divided the former Confederate states into 5 districts that were placed under military control.

• Compromise of 1877

• Compromise of 1850

• Military Deconstruction

• Military Reconstruction

In 1866 New Orleans, A bloody clash between freedman and former Confederates who were marching over the issue of voting rights for freedman.

• Battle of Liberty Place

• Colfax Massacre

• Murders in Coushatta

• Mechanics Institute Riot

Occurred in Grant Parish due to the results of the 1872 election and resulted in the death of approximately 150 Republicans. This event was the single deadliest instance of politically motivated violence to occur during Reconstruction.

• Battle of Liberty Place

• Colfax Massacre

• Murders in Coushatta

• Mechanics Institute Riot

A revolt mounted by the White League in New Orleans in which they planned to overthrow the state government and forcibly remove Governor Kellogg from office. This was successful for a single day, until Federal troops arrived and restored Governor Kellogg’s power.

• Battle of Liberty Place

• Colfax Massacre

• Murders in Coushatta

• Mechanics Institute Riot

A paramilitary group, formed in 1874, that was committed to restoring the state to white Democratic rule by whatever means necessary.

• Carpetbaggers

• White League

• Knights of the White Camellia

• Scalawags

A Secret paramilitary organization from in St. Mary Parish that used methods intended to create terror among potential black Republican voters.

• Carpetbaggers

• White League

• Knights of the White Camellia

• Scalawags

An insulting term applied to northerners who came south during Reconstruction (carrying a small carpet bag); they were suspected of taking advantage of postwar conditions to gain political power and profit.

• Carpetbaggers

• White League

• Knights of the White Camellia

• Scalawags

Lt. Governor under Henry Clay Warmoth, became the first African American governor of Louisiana in 1872 after Warmoth was forced to step down due to impeachment charges.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• P.B.S Pinchback

• Ulysses S. Grant.

The name given to former slaves.

• Carpetbaggers

• Radical Republicans

• Freedmen

• Scalawags