Reconstruction 4

Match the following vocabulary terms.

• white supremacy

• The belief that the white race is superior.

• carpetbaggers

• Southerners who wanted the South to change as little as possible.

• sharecropper

• A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

• conservatives

• Northerners who moved to the South to take advantage of the opportunities after the Civil War.

• scalawag

• Southern white Republicans viewed as traitors in the South.

Cause: The military enforced voting rights for African Americans in the South during Reconstruction.

• Effect: Former plantation owners and Confederates were re-elected into office.

• Effect: African Americans exercised their right to vote and ran for political office.

Cause: White Conservatives believed that slavery was not immoral and did not want the South to change.

• Effect: African Americans gained more rights and freedoms.

• Effect: Groups such as the KKK formed to terrorize African Americans and those who helped them.

Cause: It cost a lot of money to rebuild the South after the Civil War.

• Effect: Taxes were raised to help pay for the cost to rebuild.

• Effect: Taxes were lowered to help landowner's get back on their feet.

Cause: While Reconstruction may have given former slaves citizenship and basic rights, it did little to help them survive financially.

• Effect: Most could not find jobs or a place to live and had little choice but to return back to the plantations where they had once been enslaved.

• Effect: Most were able to leave the South and find jobs in factories in the North.