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Question 1

What does the 15th Amendment state?

Answer 1

The right to vote “shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This did not apply to women.

Question 2

This was the name by Southerners referring to Northerners that moved to the south.

Answer 2

Carpetbaggers

Question 3

Why did the South hate Carpetbaggers?

Answer 3

They were seen as intruders wanting to profit off of the South’s post-war struggles.

Question 4

These were Southerners that worked with Republicans and supported Reconstruction.

Answer 4

Scalawags

Question 5

Why did the South hate Scalawags?

Answer 5

They were seen as traitors.

Question 6

What reforms did the Republicans introduce during Reconstruction?

Answer 6

• repealing black codes
• making more state offices elective
• establishing state hospitals and institutions for orphans, deaf, blind, and mentally ill
• rebuilding railways and bridges and providing money for new ones

Question 7

What were the costs of the reforms introduced by Republicans?

Answer 7

• forced state governments to borrow money
• rise of taxes
• those unable to pay taxes lost land
• grafting (gaining money through politics illegally)

Question 8

This person was the first African American to be elected into the House of Representatives.

Answer 8

Joseph Rainey

Question 9

This person was the first African American to be elected into the Senate.

Answer 9

Hiram Revels

Question 10

What allowed African Americans to establish centers of communities?

Answer 10

Churches

Question 11

This person started the KKK to drive out Union troops/carpetbaggers and regain the South for Democrats.

Answer 11

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 12

How were the 3 Enforcement Acts designed to limit the KKK?

Answer 12

to end violence