Chapter 15.2 Flashcards

To understand the era of Reconstruction and the New South. (36 cards)

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The acceptance of one Southerner in Hayes cabinet as well as the withdrawal of the troops.

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Compromise of 1877

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Hayes won the electoral votes, while Tilden won the popular vote.

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Hayes v. Tilden

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Composed of 5 senators, 5 representaives, & 5 justices of the Supreme Court. Congressional delegation would consist of 5 Republicans & 5 Democrats. Court delegation would consist of 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats, & an independent (who would favor with the Republicans).

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Special Electoral Commission

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4
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Popular resentment of Reconstruction was so deep that supporting the party was politically impossible.

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Republican Failure in the South

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5
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A pervasive belief among many of the even most liberal whites that African Americans were inherently inferior served as an obstacle to equality.

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Idelogical Limits

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Conservative oligarchy; to themselves and their supporters.

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The “Redeemers”

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Conservative oligarchy; term for aristocrats used by some of their critics.

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The “Bourbons”

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Demanding states to revise their debt payment procedures in order to make more money available for state services.

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The Readjuster Challenge

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9
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Editor of the Atlanta Constitituion

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Henry Grady

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10
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The loss that the Southerners faced after the Civil War.

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“Lost Cause”

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local-color fiction writer whose folk tales (most famous being Uncle Remus) portrayed the slave society of the antebellum years as a harmonious world marked by engaging dialect & close emotional bonds between the races

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Joel Chandler Harris

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12
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extolled the old Virginia aristocracy.

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Thomas Nelson Page

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13
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Reflected the romanticism of the old South.

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Ministrel Shows

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14
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The tobacco-processing industry whose American Tobacco Company established for a time a virtual monopoly over the processing of raw tobacco into marketable materials.

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James B. Duke

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15
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Southern states leased gangs of convicted criminals to private interests as a cheap labor supply.

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“Convict-lease” System

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System by which farmers borrowed money against their future crops and often fell deeper into debt.

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Crop-lien System

17
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Would supply farmers with land, a crude house, a few tools, seed, and sometimes a mule.

18
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Farmers would promise the landlord a large share of the annual crop.

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Sharecropping

19
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The piney woods and mountain regions where cotton & slavery had always been rare & where farmers lived ruggedly independent lives.

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Transformation of the Backcountry

20
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Required farmers to fence in their animlas.

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“Fence Laws”

21
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Vision of the progress and self-improvement.

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“New South Creed”

22
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Distinct middle class- economically inferior to the white middle class, but nevertheless significant.

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Black Middle Class

23
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Black woman who became the first female bank president in the U.S. when she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond in 1903.

24
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Chief spokemen for commitment to education and founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

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Booker T. Washington

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A famous speech in Georgia in 1895, Washington outlined a philosophy of race relations.
The Atlanta Compromise
26
Court held that separate accommodationsdid not deprive blacks of equal rights if the accommodations were equal, a decision that survived for years as part of teh legal basis of segregated schools.
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Court ruled that laws establishing separate schools for whites were vaild even if there were no comparable schools for blacks.
Cumming v. County Board of Education
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Few blacks were prosperous enough to meet such requirements
Poll tax
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Required voters to demonstrate the ability to read and to interpret the Constitution.
"Literacy" or "Understanding" Test
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Permitting men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications to be enfranchised if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.
Grandfather Laws
31
Laws restricting the franchise and segregating schools were only part of a network of state statues.
Jim Crow Laws
32
Stripped blacks of many of the modest, social, economic, and political gains they had made in the late 19th century.
Jim Crow Laws
33
Means for whites to retain control of social relations between the races in the newly growing cities and towns of the South.
Jim Crow Laws
34
Violence either because the victims were accused of crimes or because they seemed to violate their proper station.
Lynchings
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Means by which whites controlled the black population through terror and intimidation.
Lynchings
36
Committed black journalist, who luanched an international anti-lynching movement with a series of impassioned articles.
Ida B. Wells