| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Carpetbaggers? | a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections |
| What are scalawags? | a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation. |
| What were Enforcement Acts? | An act against people who are of violation and law. |
| Who were Redeemers? | were white southern Democrats who aimed to put an end to Reconstruction and biracial governments and restore the Democratic Party to power in the South. |
| Ku Klux Klan | White angry southerners who form secret terrorist groups to prevent African Americans from voting. |
| panic of 1812 | severe economic depression, |
| Samuel J Tilden | Was the 25th governor of the New York and Democratic candidate for president in 1876 |
| Rutherford B Hayes | Another candidate for president in 1876. |
| Compromise of 1877 | was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. |
| How did Reconstruction affect the lives of African Americans? | Whites and blacks could live together in a non slave society.They now had the right to vote and go to school. |
| What groups formed a Republican alliance in the South during Reconstruction? | The African Americans made up a large majority of southern republican voters during the reconstuction |
| How did Congress respond to violence against African Americans? | They prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African Americans |
| What historical era came to end in 1877? | The Reconstruction Era. |
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