The South During Reconstruction

During the time of Reconstruction in the South, Northerners set up academies in the South for African Americans.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, African American and white students usually went to the same schools in the South.

• True

• False

Schools that are integrated have only white students.

• True

• False

Having their own land would enable African Americans to support their families. Some African Americans bought land with the help of the _______ Bank.

• Farmland Bank

• Freedmen's Bank

• American

In the ___________system, landowners rented land to _________, or farmers. __________ gave a percentage of their crops to the landowner.

• Nomad, Nomads

• Mercenary, Mercenaries

• sharecropping, sharecroppers

___________ controlled Southern politics during the Reconstruction period.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Independents

Former Confederates who held resentment against those who had been pro-Union called these people __________, a term meaning “scoundrel” or “worthless rascal.”

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• scabs

Northern Whites that moved to the South after the Civil War were referred to by White Southerners as ____________. The term referred to cheap suitcases made of a certain fabric.

• scoundrels

• carpetbagger

During Reconstruction, most Southern whites wanted African Americans to have more rights.

• True

• False

The _______________ used fear and violence to deny rights to freed African American men and women. Disguising themselves in white sheets and hoods, they threatened, beat, and killed thousands of African Americans and the whites who supported them.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Society of the South

• Rural Rebels