History pgs. 336 to 341
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 300,000 | Nearly how many Southern men had died in the war in battle, in prison camps, or from disease? |
| Charleston | One observer described what city in South Carolina, as the scene of "vacant houses, of widowed women, of rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses, of weed-wild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceless barrenness" |
| Military Reconstruction Act | This legislation more or less imposed military occupation on the South, like the army of a conquering nation occupying a defeated foe |
| Tennessee | What state was exempted from the Military Reconstruction Act because it had already ratified the 14th Amendment and had been "reconstructed" |
| Five | The Military Reconstruction Act divided the remaining former states of the Confederacy into how many military districts? |
| Freedman's Bureau | One of the most important agencies in Southern Reconstruction; founded in 1865 to provide help to the newly freed slaves |
| Freedman's United States Courts | Bureau courts that protected the rights of the freedmen |
| Black Codes | Passed by president Johnson, these codes were attempts to regulate the conduct of the former slaves, often in an unfair manner |
| Vagrancy | Lack of self-support |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern Radicals, named after the cheap luggage made out of carpet in which most of them supposedly brought all their belongings |
| Scalawags | Southern Radicals |
| Disfranchisement | Denial of the right to vote |
| Hiram Revels | The first black to serve in the United States Congress |
| Ku Klux Klan | The most important of these extremists groups; Dressed in white hoods and robes that supposedly made them look like ghosts and threatened blacks to keep them from exercising their newly gained political rights |
| Ku Klux Klan Act | Act that broke the power of the Klan |
| Agriculture | Leading Southern "industry" |
| Sharecropping | Developed as an answer to the economic deprivations of the South; a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land |
| Redeemers | Men who led the right for white majority rule |
| Wade Hampton | A good example of a fair-minded Redeemer |
| Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina | By 1876 federal troops remained only in.. |
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