1. Review for Quiz #3
Notes 6-10

2. What was the name of the economic plan to help land owners and former slaves make money, but ultimately created a life of debt for former slaves?
Sharecropping
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3. Once reconstruction was over, who went BACK to controlling southern state governments?
Southern Democrats
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4. Ku Klux Klan (KKK); you could also say Knights of the White Camilia
What was the name of one of the subversive or discriminatory groups that terrorized African Americans during Reconstruction?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK); you could also say Knights of the White Camilia
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5. For their part of the Compromise of 1877, what did the Democrats agreed to support?
They agreed to support voting for a Republican president (Rutherford B. Hayes)
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6. Who wanted to quickly re-establish cotton production to keep their superior position and dominate politics?
The Southern elite
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7. Eventually Reconstruction comes to an end because the Northerners lost interest in paying these which supported the rebuilding of the South.
taxes
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8. What insect destroyed cotton crops?
Boll weevil
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9. For their part of the Compromise of 1877, what did the Republicans agreed to support?
They supported removing the troops from the south
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10. Discriminatory groups believed in this idea of superiority and tried to keep African Americans and other groups from having equality.
White supremacy
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11. Black Codes were replaced by which laws after the Plessy v Ferguson Court case ?
Jim Crow Laws or “separate but equal” laws (also called segregation laws)
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12. What did some African Americans have to pay before they were able to vote?
A poll tax (payment)
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13. Most of the country became more industrialized in the late 1800s, but the South remained in what kind of industry?
Agriculture
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14. What was the intention (purpose) of the “grandfather clause”?
If your father/grandfather voted before 1867, you could vote. But no AA had the right to vote, so it was a way to keep them from voting
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15. What would be an example of a Jim Crow law?
African Americans had separate schools, churches, transportations, entrances to businesses, water fountains= just to name a few
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16. Why did subversive groups like the Knights of the White Camellia target African Americans during Reconstruction?
To keep African Americans in an inferior place in society, to keep African Americans from voting or having any of their rights
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17. What effect did Jim Crow laws have on race relations in the South?
It created decades of “separate but equal” for blacks and whites to keep them segregated
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18. What were some methods used by subversive groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate African Americans?
Violence towards African Americans and burned crosses in their yards and churches
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19. Which workers were first attracted to and were hired to work in textile factories?
White farm workers
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20. Why did southern landowners enter into sharecropping agreements with freedmen?
They needed workers to work their crops since they no longer had slaves
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21. How did the working and living conditions of African Americans change as a result of their new freedom?
They could decide if the women and children worked in the crops or not; they moved away from the plantation house; they built communities around the church
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22. They needed workers since slavery was abolished
What did landowners need after the war was over?
They needed workers since slavery was abolished
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23. What did newly freed slaves need after the war was over?
They needed a place to live and a job to make money for their family
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24. What did the landowner provide is most sharecropping agreements?
They provided the land/crops, the tools, all the supplies, as well as a place for the worker to live
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25. What did the worker provide in most sharecropping agreements?
They provided the workforce or labor for the landowner
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26. What was the result of the sharecropping agreement after the crops were sold at the market?
The landowner received his portion; if the crops were plentiful, then hopefully the worker received his part too. Often times, however, he didn’t and owed the landowner more money
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27. Name a positive and a negative POLITICAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans
Positive- they had the right to vote and some held political jobs; they voted for Republicans who helped them
Negative- they were kept from voting; Black Codes and eventually Jim Crow Laws were passed;
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28. Name a positive and a negative ECONOMICAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans
Positive- became sharecroppers as a way to make $$; could decide if women/children worked the fields;
Negative- were never allowed to own land; sharecropping often put them back in debt to landowners,
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29. Name a positive and a negative SOCIAL effect of Reconstruction for African Americans
Positive- reunited they families; married; built communities around the church;
Negative- were never seen as equals to Southern elite; experienced violence from subversive groups to keep them “inferior”
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