Name ______Period ______Date ______

Chapter 17

Section 3: The South During Reconstruction

  1. New Groups Take Charge
  2. Republican party consisted mainly of three groups
  3. These groups dominated the state ______convention and state ______
  1. African Americans in Government
  1. In states where African American voters were the ______, they contributed heavily to ______victories
  2. African Americans did not control the ______of any state

3. At the national level, ______African Americans served in the House of Representatives and _____ in the Senate between ______and ______

4. ______, one of the African American senators was an ordained minister who recruited African Americans for the ______army

5. Blanche K. Bruce was a ______slave who had established a school for African Americans in ______after the war began

6. He was elected to the Senate in ______and served six years

  1. Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
  1. Some Southern whites supported ______policy throughout ______.
  2. Former Confederates called them ______, meaning “scoundrel” or “worthless rascal”
  3. Northern whites who moved South to help in ______were called ______because of the cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric
  4. Many carpetbaggers were former members of the ______who liked the South and wanted to settle there.

5. Many Southerners ______the Reconstruction government and accused them of corruption - ______- and financial mismanagement

6. In reality, there was probably less corruption in the ______then in the ______

  1. Resistance to Reconstruction
  2. Most white Southerners ______efforts to expand African Americans’ ______
  3. Some plantation owners told African Americans they could not ______the ______and refused to rent land to ______
  4. Store owners refused the ______and employers refused to ______
  1. The Ku Klux Klan
  1. Violence against ______and ______supporters became commonplace
  2. Much of the violence was committed by ______societies
  3. One of the most terrifying was the ______
  4. In Jackson County, Florida the Klan murdered more then ______people in the ____-year period
  5. The Klan was supported by man ______, especially ______and ______
  1. Taking Action Against Violence
  1. In ______and ______, Congress passed several laws to try and stop the violence by they had ______effect
  2. Despite problems enforcing these laws, enough arrests were made to ______order before the ______election.
  1. Some Improvements
  2. ______improved for both African Americans and whites
  3. By 1870 about ______schools had been established with ______students
  1. Public Schools
  1. Within a few years, more than ______percent of white children and about ______of African American children in the South were enrolled in schools
  2. Only three states, ______, ______, and ______required that schools be ______
  1. Farming the Land
  1. The most common form of farmwork for freed individuals was ______