Chapter 15.2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Compromise of 1877

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Hayes v. Tilden

Question 3

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).

Answer 3

Special Electoral Commission

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Republican Failure in the South

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Idelogical Limits

Question 6

Conservative oligarchy; to themselves and their supporters.

Answer 6

The “Redeemers”

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The “Bourbons”

Question 8

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

Answer 8

The Readjuster Challenge

Question 9

Editor of the Atlanta Constitituion

Answer 9

Henry Grady

Question 10

The loss that the Southerners faced after the Civil War.

Answer 10

“Lost Cause”

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Joel Chandler Harris

Question 12

extolled the old Virginia aristocracy.

Answer 12

Thomas Nelson Page

Question 13

Reflected the romanticism of the old South.

Answer 13

Ministrel Shows

Question 14

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

Answer 14

James B. Duke

Question 15

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

Answer 15

“Convict-lease” System

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Crop-lien System

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Landlords

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Sharecropping

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Transformation of the Backcountry

Question 20

Required farmers to fence in their animlas.

Answer 20

“Fence Laws”

Question 21

Vision of the progress and self-improvement.

Answer 21

“New South Creed”

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Black Middle Class

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

Maggie Lena

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Booker T. Washington

Question 25

A famous speech in Georgia in 1895, Washington outlined a philosophy of race relations.

Answer 25

The Atlanta Compromise

Question 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.

Answer 26

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 27

Court ruled that laws establishing separate schools for whites were vaild even if there were no comparable schools for blacks.

Answer 27

Cumming v. County Board of Education

Question 28

Few blacks were prosperous enough to meet such requirements

Answer 28

Poll tax

Question 29

Required voters to demonstrate the ability to read and to interpret the Constitution.

Answer 29

“Literacy” or “Understanding” Test

Question 30

Permitting men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications to be enfranchised if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

Answer 30

Grandfather Laws

Question 31

Laws restricting the franchise and segregating schools were only part of a network of state statues.

Answer 31

Jim Crow Laws

Question 32

Stripped blacks of many of the modest, social, economic, and political gains they had made in the late 19th century.

Answer 32

Jim Crow Laws

Question 33

Means for whites to retain control of social relations between the races in the newly growing cities and towns of the South.

Answer 33

Jim Crow Laws

Question 34

Violence either because the victims were accused of crimes or because they seemed to violate their proper station.

Answer 34

Lynchings

Question 35

Means by which whites controlled the black population through terror and intimidation.

Answer 35

Lynchings

Question 36

Committed black journalist, who luanched an international anti-lynching movement with a series of impassioned articles.

Answer 36

Ida B. Wells