CHP 17 U.S. HISTORY

To begin the process of Reconstruction, President Johnson first...

Appointed a temporary governor for each state.

Hiram Revels was the first African American to hold which post?

U.S. Senator

In the election of 188 Republican __________ won the presidency with the help of African American votes.

Ulysses S. Grant

Southern Democrats disliked white southern republicans, who they called ________ or greedy rascals.

Scalawags

Ku Klux Klan

Secret society group from Tennessee, opposed the civil rights, particularly suffrage for African Americans.

Why did Southern Demos. dislike scalawags?

b/c they believed the scalawags would betrayed the south by voting for the Repub. Party.

From support from_____________ Republicans were stronger , and controlled most of the southern governments.

African Americans

Reconstruction Goverments provided southerners:

- money for new programs and/or organizations. -establish first state funded public school systems -new hospitals, prisons, orphanages, & discrimination against African Americans.

Abraham Lincolns plan for reconstruction was called the what plan?

10% plan

Black. Codes

Limited African Americans freedoms and rights

Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870.

Local Governments did little to stop the groups violence.

Carpetbaggers

Office holders who were northern-born republicans who moved to the south after the Civil war.

Lives of ordinary southerners were affected in the years after reconstruction by?

Poll taxes, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson and Sharecropping.

Thaddeus Stevens was a leader of the...

Radical Republicans

How did southerners resent Caroetbaggers?

by unfairly accusing them of trying to profit from the Reconstruction.