Chapter+4-3.+Reconstruction+in+the+South

Chapter 4-3: Reconstruction in the South

Key Terms/ Words:
 * Carpetbaggers: northern republicans that were eager to participate in state conventions
 * Scalawags: southerner whites that back up Union
 * Ku Klux Klan: secret southern terrorist group
 * Enforced Acts: 3 laws for blacks for fed. gov. to combat terrorism with military force
 * Panic of 1873: strikes, riots
 * Civil Rights Act of 1875: businesses could not discriminate against blacks
 * Redeemers: supporters of white controlled gov.
 * Compromise of 1877: republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from south

Key People:
 * Samuel J. Tilden:democrat of New York for president
 * RutherFord B. Hayes: Republican for president

Key Events: African American Activism Reconstruction Governments: The Ku Klux Klan: Changes in Reconstruction:
 * rise of congressional reconstruction gave former slaves hop for equal citzenship
 * AA's joined political groups such as union league
 * During reconstruction, white northerners founded many schools but AA's launched educational institutions
 * Carpetbaggers: northern republicans that were eager to participate in state conventions
 * Scalawags: southerner whites that back up Union
 * Republican alliance used political leverage to draft new state constitutions
 * Ku Klux Klan: secret southern terrorist group
 * Enforced Acts: 3 laws for blacks for fed. gov. to combat terrorism with military force
 * AA's struck back at klan by burning barns of klansmen, gathered in defense of an intended victim
 * Panic of 1873: strikes, riots
 * Civil Rights Act of 1875: businesses could not discriminate against blacks
 * Redeemers: supporters of white controlled gov.
 * Samuel J. Tilden:democrat of New York for president
 * RutherFord B. Hayes: Republican for president
 * Compromise of 1877: