Social Studies Chapter 18 Section 3 Questions - The Reconstruction South

List two problems that plagued Reconstruction governments in the South.

1: Many cities were in ruins, and 2: People didn't really know what to do. They usually had their slaves doing everything for them.

Identify: (a) Hiram R. Revels and (b) Blanche K. Bruce.

(a) Hiram Rhodes Revels was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. (b) Blanche Kelso Bruce was a U.S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881; of mixed race, he was the first elected black senator to serve a full term.

Define: (a) Tenant, (b) Sharecropper, (c) Carpetbagger, and (d) Scalawag.

(a) Tenant: a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. (b) Sharecropper: Someone that allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. (c) Carpetbagger: In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era. The term carpetbagger was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags. (d) Scalawag: In United States history, scalawags were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.

What new groups entered southern politics after the war?

1: Radical Reconstructionists and 2: Conservative Southerners.

What factors made it difficult to rebuild the southern economy after the war?

The factors that made it difficult to rebuild the southern economy were: 1st of all, the North and South didn't exactly get along that well. 2nd of all, all of the buildings/towns were burned down by the northerners in the battle.