The End of Reconstruction
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- What were Jim Crow laws?***
- Laws separating Blacks and Whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals and cemetaries.
- What was the "New South"?***
- used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North.
- What is segregation?***
- legal separation of the races
- Who was re-elected President in 1872?
- President Grant
- What was the grandfather's clause?***
- laws stated that if a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jannuary 1, 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test
- Explain the poll tax?***
- required voters to pay a fee each time they voted.
- What was the impact of Reconstruction on the South?***
- Reconstruction had a deep and lasting impact on the South. They had bitter memories of Radical Republican policies and military rule. The south remained Democratic and Blacks lost their political rights.
- What was Plessy vs. Furguson?***
- the supreme court ruling stating that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal
- What was a literacy test?***
- required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution
- What was the Amnesty Act of 1872?***
- The Amnesty Act of 1872 restored the right to vote to nearly all white southerners.
- When did the end of Reconstruction come?***
- the end of reconstruction came with the election of 1876
- Name new industries of the South? ***
- Steel, oil, copper, granite, marble, lumber
- Why did Radical Republicans begin losing power?***
- Northerners grew weary of trying to reform the South and widespread corruption also hurt republicanns.
- What kept many African Americans from voting?***
- threats of violence
- Name agricultural resources of the South?***
- cotton, tobacco
- Who won the election of 1876?
- President Hayes