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What were some methods of southern resistance during reconstruction?
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efforts to borrow sufucient funds to begin businesses; attempts to raise money to pay taxes on their land; societies such as KKK which were for the purpose of protecting the women; hiring former slaves or house workers to drive the women where they needed to go.
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During Reconstruction their opponents called Southern white Republicans?
Scalawags
What factors led to the end of reconstruction?
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
Republican governments in the southern states during reconstruction were unpopular because?
African Americans remained disenfranchised
What did southern whites use to disenfranchise African American during reconstruction?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Was the Freedmens Bureau in the times of Reconstruction?
yes it was during reconstruction times.
What were southern military leaders not allowed to do during reconstruction?
Southern military leaders weren't allowed to hold office during reconstruction.
How did southern agriculture change during Reconstruction?
cotton and tabacco
How did republicans gain control the southern state governments during reconstruction?
The Republicans gain control of Southern state governments during reconstruction by federal forces. This happen from the railroad schemes in the South.
How did republicans gain control of southern state governments during the reconstruction?
The Republicans gain control of Southern state governments during reconstruction by federal forces. This happen from the railroad schemes in the South.
During Reconstruction their opponents called Southern white Republicans?
Scalawags
What where southern people who supported republican policies during reconstruction?
sharecroppers
Who fought to restrict African American rights during reconstruction?
President Andrew Jackson restricted African American rights during reconstruction. Blacks were excluded from southern politics. Radical Reconstruction occurred from 1867 to 1877
What two crops were the focus of southern agriculture during reconstruction?
cotton and tobaco
What was the name that the former confederates gave to the southern republicans during reconstruction?
Scalawags.
What did the southern democrats call the northerns who went to the south during the reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers.
What did the southern state governments help to finance during the reconstruction period?
Railroads
Why were new state constitutions successful during reconstruction?
The New State Constitution was successful during Reconstruction. It made the southern states write new laws that outlawed slavery. former slaves feared less of the southern states.
