The South During Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, what were African Americans able to do for the first time in large numbers?

• Own land

• Vote and serve in government

• Travel freely

• Attend college

What term was used for Southerners who supported Reconstruction?

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Freedmen

• Abolitionists

Who were referred to as Carpetbaggers during Reconstruction?

• Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• Northerners who moved to the South

• Former enslaved people

• Southern landowners

What group terrorized African Americans and their white supporters during Reconstruction?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Union Army

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Confederate Army

What system trapped many former enslaved people in debt after Reconstruction?

• Sharecropping

• Tenant farming

• Industrial labor

• Urban migration