Unit 9 Lesson 7 Impact of Reconstruction

administered poll taxes and literacy tests during elections.

segregated white and African American students in schools.

built schools and trained teachers for newly freed persons.

helped African Americans relocate from the South to the North.

placed the South under military rule and created districts.

granted all African American men the right to vote.

prohibited states from denying the right to vote due to race.

was the first in a series of laws that protected African Americans.

granted suffrage to all African American men.

gave all adult African Americans the right to vote.

made it illegal to deny the right to vote due to race.

granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

a leader of the Ku Klux Klan

a Democratic presidential candidate

the first African American in Congress

a wealthy Mississippi landowner

a leader and founding member of the Ku Klux Klan

a presidential candidate from the Republican Party

the first African American politician to serve in Congress

the founder of the first school for African American children

African Americans were excluded from participating in government at any level.

African Americans participated widely in local government in the South.

African Americans became the most powerful voice in Southern state governments.

African Americans were elected to positions in local, state, and national government.

the Carpetbaggers

the Ku Klux Klan

the Scalawags

the Tennessee legislature

the Liberal Republicans joining the Republican Party.

a Democratic candidate assuming the presidency in 1868.

members of Grant’s administration being accused of bribery.

violence breaking out against African Americans in Memphis.

the end of the Civil War

the start of Reconstruction

several banks ran out of money

several major stocks crashed

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

Horatio Seymour

Samuel J. Tilden

One of Grant’s staff members ran for president, even though he’d been accused of taking bribes.

Tilden won the popular vote, Hayes narrowly won the electoral vote, and votes in four states were disputed.

The Republican Party was divided between Grant’s followers and the Liberal Republicans.

Hayes won the popular vote, Tilden narrowly won the electoral vote, and Florida’s voting results were disputed.

It removed federal troops from the South.

It placed a Democrat in the White House.

It ensured that Democrats would join the cabinet.

It created a split within the Republican Party.

The president would be a Democrat, and the vice president would be a Republican.

The president would be a Republican, and the vice president would be a Democrat.

The president would be a Democrat, and the cabinet would contain Republicans.

The president would be a Republican, and the cabinet would contain Democrats.