Chapter 17 sec. 3 Reconstruction in the South

Reconstruction Governments

Identify all of the statements that are true.

After Grant became President in 1869, the Republicans seemed stronger than ever because...

• They controlled most southern governments because of the support of African American voters.

• Some of the Republican officeholders were unpopular with white voters.

• They controlled most southern governments because of the support of African American slaveholders.

• Most of the Republican officeholders where unpopular with white voters.

Reconstruction Governments

Carpetbagger and Scalawags

Identify all of the statements that are false.

• Republican controlled most southern governments, partly because of the lack of support of African American voters.

• Carpetbaggers were given this name, supposedly because they rushed South carrying all of their possessions in bags made from carpeting.

• Some of these office-holders (carpetbaggers) were northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the war.

• All carpetbaggers were guilty of trying to profit from Reconstruction.

• white southern Republicans were called scalawags, or grateful residents.

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Identify all of the statements that are true.

• James Alcorn, the Mississippi governor during this time, and former member of the Whig Party preferred to become a Democrat rather than a Republican.

• Many southern Republicans were small farmers who had supported the Confederacy during the war (Civil War).

• Democrats believed that these southerners (scalawags) had befriended the South by voting for the Republican Party.

• Southern Democrats cared even less for white southern Republicans.

African American Leaders

Identify all of the statements that are false.

• African American were the largest group of southern Republican voters.

• During Reconstruction, 600 African Americans were elected to Congress.

• Hiram Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Senate.

• Blanche K. Bruce became an important Republican in Missouri and served one term as a U.S. senator.

State Governments Change Direction

Identify all of the statements that are true.

• Reconstruction governments helped fund some of the first state-funded public schools in the South.

• Reconstruction governments passed laws prohibiting discrimination.

• Southern states under Republican control spent large amounts of money to help the southern economy recover from the war.

• Reconstruction governments raised taxes and issued bonds to pay for rebuilding the South.

Ku Klux Klan

Identify all of the statements that are false.

• Democrats claimed that the Reconstruction governments were corrupt, illegal, yet justified.

• Many white southerners disapproved of African American office-holders.

• The Ku Klux Klan was a secret society that opposed civil rights, particularly, suffrage (the right to vote) for African Americans.

• In 1870 and 1871 Congress passed laws that made it a federal celebration to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection under the law.

Ku Klux Klan

After federal laws were passed in 1870 and 1871, within a few months, the Klan was no longer an organized threat

• True

• False

Reconstruction Ends

Identify all of the statements that are true.

• The violence of the Ku Klux Klan was the only challenge to Reconstruction.

• Republicans slowly lost control of southern state governments to Democratic Party.

• The General Amnesty Act of 1872 allowed all former Confederates to serve in public office..

• Many of the former Confederates who were allowed to serve in public office were soon rejected by southern governments.

Reconstruction Ends

Panic of 1873

Identify all of the events that were contributing factors that led to the Republican Party losing power in the North.

• In President Grant's first term there was a gold buying scheme in which brother took a leading role.

• During Grant's second term, his personal secretary was involved in the Whiskey Ring Scandal

• The failure of Jay Cooke and Company sent a panic through the stock market which caused 18,000 other businesses to fail within two years.

• By 1876 unemployment was 14 percent, 2 million people were out of work, strikes and protests.

• As a result of various crises in the nation, Northerners were becoming more concerned about southern racism and less concerned about their financial well-being.

Election of 1876

Identify all of the statement tat are false.

• In 1874 the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats.

• When the Republican Party lost the House of Representatives, they were not able to pass any new civil rights laws.

• The Republican Party abandoned Reconstruction because Americans were more worried about the nations economic problems and political corruption.

• Rutherford Hayes, of Ohio was the Republican candidate for president in 1876.