Resistance to Reconstruction

What was the purpose of the Red Shirt Group?

• To support the People's Alliance for Democracy
• To control the amount of Republican votes made by freed slaves

• To promote an economy supporting white superiority

• To incorparate a dress code in the government

How did the Red Shirts try to resist reconstruction?

• Violent intimidation and suppression of African American voting rights
• Peaceful protests and negotiations with the government
• Supporting African American voting rights and equality
• Advocating for fair treatment and integration of African Americans

What did the Red Shirts do to try to achieve their goal?

• They got together in large groups to intimidate feedmen into voting democratically

• They focused on community outreach and education.
• They sought diplomatic negotiations and compromise.
• They got together in large groups and organized peaceful protests and demonstrations.

What was the main idea of the White League?

• To help newly freed slaves find jobs

• To set up new schools for everyone

• To establish white supremacy and terrorize African Americans

• To help protect voting rights of African Americans

In September of 1874, the White League...

• Overwhelmed the state militia

• Attacked the White House

• Held an election for their new leader

• Raided freed blacks' land

What was sent to put down the White League in 1874?

• Local police force
• Six Warships and Federal troops

• International diplomats
• Six Aircrafts

• There were Peaceful Negotiations

The political movement called Redemption aimed at...

• Including more black voters

• Creating a new political party that is appealing to black voters

• Overthrowing President Ulysses S. Grant

• Drawing black voters away from the Republican Party

In 1870 and 1871, what acts were passed?

• An act to establish Beureau for the Releif of Freemen and Refugees

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• Forces and Ku Klux Klan Acts

• The Amnesty and Comstock act

The political movement of Reconstruction aimed at...

• continuing the practice of slavery
• rebuilding and reuniting the United States after the Civil War
• intigrating newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems.

• ignoring the aftermath of the Civil War

What did the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 do?

• Made individuals and states punishable under federal law for hate crimes

• Made hate crimes on the basis of race legal

• Caused everyone in the KKK to be arrested

• The act never passed because the KKK terrorised and intimidated members of Congress