Chapter 15 & 16

Scalawags

A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners

Carpetbaggers

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states

T or F The United States was the only society to experience problems with labor during the transition from slavery to freedom.

False

Why did former slaves believe that landownership was the cornerstone of freedom?

It allowed for the development of black communities independent of white control. They were entitled to the land because of their unpaid labor.

Why did southerners oppose Reconstruction?

Southern whites could not accept the idea of blacks' equality. Reconstruction governments were corrupt. Poor southern whites did not experience the improvement to their economic situation as they had hoped.

How did the Reconstruction amendments change the Constitution?

They expanded the definition of citizenship to include non-whites. They established the federal government as the protector of rights.

Identify the statements that describe sharecropping.

a compromise between blacks' desire for landownership and whites' need to discipline their labor force preferred by former slaves because it allowed them to work without white supervision required farmers to divide the crop with the landowner at the end of the year guaranteed planters a stable labor force

Identify the statements that describe the Civil Rights Bill of 1866.

defined all persons born in the United States as citizens ensured all citizens enjoyed a set of basic rights

Identify the provisions of the Radical plan for Reconstruction.

the Fourteenth Amendment state guarantees of black men's right to vote temporary division of the South into military districts creation of new state governments

Identify the factors that contributed to the weakening of northern support for Reconstruction.

the economic depression of the early 1870s,the Supreme Court's failure to fully uphold the rights of blacks,the growth of Democratic power in Congress, northern journalists' depictions of the failure of southern black leadership

T or F The Ku Klux Klan was a racially motivated terrorist organization that spread throughout the entire South during Reconstruction.

true