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- Who urged blacks to take political action and was against views of compliance for fear of increased white oppression?
- Who was a Civil War governor for Georgia who opposed almost all Confederate policies and later became a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court and U.S. senator?
- Disenfranchisement law used to allow poor whites the opportunity to vote while denying the right to blacks based on the voting status of an individual's grandfather.
- Who started life as a slave, became a sharecropper, and eventually established businesses in Atlanta such as the Crystal Palace becoming a millionaire?
- Disenfranchising tactic placing a tax on voting hindering poor blacks & whites from voting.
- Who spoke at the International Cotton Exposition in a speech known as the Atlanta Compromise Speech?
- Disenfranchising tactic allowing only whites to vote in primary elections.
- Who promoted the "New South" and the Bourbon Triumvirate in his news articles?
- Disenfranchising tactic requiring voters to take a reading and writing test before being allowed to vote.
- The southern states passed a variety of laws legalizing racial segregation and mandating separate public facilities known as ______.
- Monetary debates, such as those over greenbacks, became a major political issue during the Reconstruction Era.What was the primary motivation for supporters of "soft-money" policies to advocate for the distribution of greenbacks?
- Who was a captain of the Raccoon Roughs in the Civil War and later became a Georgia governor, U.S. senator, and was rumored to be head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia?
- Also known as the People's Party, which political party represented the common man, especially farmers, and was against industrial interests?
- The "New South" movement was attempting to redefine Georgia and push the economy into one that depended more heavily on what?
- Although most northerners in the postwar South were there to help rebuild the economy, critics referred to them as carpetbaggers, opportunists who came purely to gain political control.
- What was Johnson's approach to Reconstruction upon assuming the presidency following Lincoln's assassination?
- First national park, Yellowstone was established by George Caitlin
- According to the ___, if the ____states has seceded and were conjured____, then the______ branch would be in charge of reconstructing the south.
- ________ in the South differed between states, but they shared common features such as restricting black _________ rights by prohibiting them from __________ against whites and serving on ___________, as well as enforcing __________ laws against the recently emancipated black community.
- Congressional Reconstruction in the South enabled the majority of blacks to experience ________, but not _________. The _________ of Congressional Reconstruction helped perpetuate the long-standing __________ against African Americans.While oppressive systems such as sharecropping and ________ still existed during and after Reconstruction, some of the failures of the Reconstruction Era laid the groundwork for the _________ nearly a century later.