Reconstruction Part 2

Reconstruction Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How did African Americans participate in politics? What party did they take up?being able to vote after the 15th amendment passed and taking up republican party

Carpetbagger- Northern white and black men who relocated to the South in order to improve economic and political circumstance


Scalawag-Southern white men who had been frozen out of politics before the war who allied with Republicans to gain political power

What was the Freedman’s Bureau? What did it do for both white and black refugees?Plan from Radical Republicans to form government agency to aid both White and Black refugees in the South, and Goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, education for refugees

How did gov leaders want to redistribute land? Sherman’s plan to redistribute land to freed people did not work


Sharecropping-landowner picks crop, provides needs, in return for part of crop


Share tenancy- same as sharecropping except farmer chose crop and bought own tools


Tenant Farming-pay cash rent to land owner in order to make all choices

What ways did south resist? Before 15th amendment limit vote to White Men and Passed black codes which limited African American rights including what work African Americans could do

What was the Ku Klux Klan? What aspects of African American life do they target? a group of white men that killed and destroy african americans