The Reconstruction Era Lesson 3
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
