History Final 2 – Flashcards
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White Southerners' derogatory term for fellow whites considered traitors to their region and race for joining the Republican Party and cooperating with Reconstruction policy
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Scalawag
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Relief agency for the war-ravaged South created by Congress in March 1865. It provided emergency services, built schools, and managed confiscated lands
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1869 providing an explicit constitutional guarantee for black suffrage
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Fifteenth Amendment
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In the early years of Reconstruction, the majority of teachers who educated Southern freedmen were
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white women from the North
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Churches became the center of African-American life for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that
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they were a place to socialize with whites
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One of the immediate goals of African American colleges was
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to train teachers in order to encourage literacy among African Americans
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In what way did the Mississippi plantations owned by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his brother Joseph become a model?
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Former slaves ran the plantations autonomously
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The Redeemers portrayed themselves as
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the saviors of the South from the injustices of Republican rule
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In 1867, Republicans in Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in an attempt to
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Weaken the powers of the president.
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The organization known as the Freedmen's Bureau was established as
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an all-purpose relief agency for the South
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Why did freedmen assert that they were owed land?
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They saw Southern property as the product of both their and their ancestors' unpaid labor
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Why was the Fifteenth Amendment not as effective as it could have been in the enfranchisement of African Americans?
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The amendment stated that suffrage could not be denied or abridged because of certain conditions, so Southerners found other reasons to deny African Americans the right to vote.
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The corruption scandal related to government-subsidized railroads was known as
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the Credit Mobilier scandal
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The term "Jim Crow" referred to
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The Southern system of segregation and black disenfranchisement
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Founded in 1871, Birmingham, Alabama soon became a leading producer of
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iron and steel
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To inspire newly freed slaves, a Boston Christian organization published the autobiography of
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Phillis Wheatley
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Why were white Southerners derisive toward scalawags?
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They believed scalawags to be traitors to the white race
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Who were carpetbaggers?
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Northerners who moved south after the Civil War
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The Black Codes included all of the following EXCEPT
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laws preventing blacks from accepting apprenticeships
