Ch 11 and 12 Test Flashcards
(31 cards)
Describe the public school system in AR. (teacher education, school year length, who was required to go to school) OR
1) school term was short, only a few weeks long
2) no law that required children to attend school
3) books and supplies were hard to attain and afford
4) few teachers had gone past the 8th grade
What were the 3 measures passed by state legislature In the early 1890s that kept blacks from voting OR
1) $1 poll tax
2) literacy test
3) couldn’t vote in primary election
Describe how Judge Parker and Bass Reeves stopped violence. OR
1) he would hang murderors
2) bass reeves went to indian territory to control violence there
3) wild land became farmland
Describe 3 ways the “old south” was different from the “new south”. OR
The old south was different from the new south…
- Did not have good transportation
- No skilled labor force
- Money to invest on a new south
- New rail roads
- slavery
what were the 3 goals of former slaves?
- own farming land
- good schools
- legal protection
what is a sharecropper?
a farmer who rents or does not own land, who is loaned necessary supplies such as shelter, tools, and equipment to work the land…legal slavery
What three groups held political positions in Arkansas at the beginning of reconstruction
african americans, scalawags, and carpetbaggers
Who took over as president after Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Johnson
who were redeemers?
ended reconstruction; canceled debt
University of Arkansas
the state university located in Fayetteville, which offers almost 200 programs. considered “flagship” state institution, major landgrant university in AR
What was the phrase that was allowed by the supreme court in 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case
“separate but equal”
Judge Isaac C. Parker
a judge on the US Federal District Court in Fort Smith
Bass Reeves
an african american who was the first to be commissioned as a US deputy marshal west of the MS River and worked in Judge parker’s court
radical reconstruction
harsh measures imposed by the US Congress upon the South following Pres. Lincoln’s and Johnson’s unsuccessful “soft” approaches
Freedman’s Bureau
an agency set up by the US government to provide food, clothing, shelter, and education to blacks after they were freed.
Ku Klux Klan
a secret group organized to harass and harm black citizens and to obstruct their participation in society
Scalawags
native southerners who supported the republican government
Carpetbaggers
northerners who moved south after the war to get rich.
Brooks-Baxter War
armed conflict after 1872 governor’s election when results were thought to be unfair
Iron Clad Oath
sworn loyalty to the US both prior and following the Civil War; effectively excluded all ex-confederates during reconstruction
number 1 industry during reconstruction
timber
states first public college
University of Arkansas
Powell Clayton
a Union army general from Pennsylvania who moved to Ar, became governor, and was effective in limiting the success of the Ku Klux Klan in AR after the war
party that started 1st state wide school system
Republicans
