The Reconstruction Era Lesson 3

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The first African American senator to serve full term

Blanche K. Bruce

Schools that are integrated have...

Both black and white students

What does "carpetbaggers" mean?

Cheap suitcase

The first African American elected to the United States Senate

Hiram Revels

Who were "carpetbaggers"?

-from the North -supported Republican party -untrusted Northerners

Who were "scalawags"?

-from the South -supported Republican party -often pro-Union business leaders and farmers who had not owned enslaved people -many were reformers

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

A group of white Southerners who killed people who are black or support black people

What does "scalawag" mean?

Scoundrel or rascal

The roles that African Americans were able to play in government during Reconstruction

Voters and elected officials

Reconstruction governments built schools for...

Whites and blacks

In the system of sharecropping, farmers

did not own land but they rented it

Most African Americans had __________ buying land in the South

trouble

Landowners often took a percentage of crops from their sharecroppers that were

unfair


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