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Chapter 6 Study Guide

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Where were Carpetbaggers from?
The North
Where were Scalawags from?
The South
Carpetbaggers
Acted as missionaries, teachers, and employees of the Freedmen's Bureau in the South
Scalawags
Supported the Union and Freedmen's Bureau even though they were Southern
Vagrancy
When a freedman did not have a job or home...could be arrested for it
13th Amendment
Freed the slaves
14th Amendment
Granted equal rights for all people born in the U.S. regardless of race
15th Amendment
Granted the right to vote (suffrage) to all MEN regardless of race
Black Codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
helped and protect newly freed black Americans and poor whites
Who established the Freedmen's Bureau?
Congress
Lincoln believed in treating Southerners fairly. (True or false)
True
Johnson pardoned all Confederate soldiers and military leaders. (True or False)
False
Lincoln supported equal rights for freedmen, but Johnson did not. (True or False)
False
Sharecropping
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
Tenant farming
system of farming where farmers rented their land from the landowner, and were allowed to grow what ever crop the preferred.
Crop Lien
Credit based on crops
How many districts was the south divided into during military reconstruction?
Five (5)
Ku Klux Klan
militant white resistance group known for lynching
Red Shirts
militant white resistance group known for "force without violence"
How long did Reconstruction last?
1865-1877 (12 years)
Compromise of 1877
Democrats declared Hayes the presidential candidate IF all troops were pulled out of the south
Wade Hampton III
Leader of the KKK, SC governor, and respected by Red Shirts
Ku Klux Klan Act
Series of laws passed to control the KKK
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