Mr. Boothby KEY
US HISTORY B
Lecture Notes CH 17 Sec 3 and 4
Read pages 524-535 in your textbook before you begin to answer these questions. Remember to always
answer by using complete sentences. Keep this sheet and all others in order in your three ring binders!!!
Section 3
I. Governments elected with the support of African American votes took control of most
Southern states. This led planter William Henry Ravenel to express his concerns…
1a. Do you feel it was appropriate to ban former Civil War leaders from holding political
office (explain on the back of this sheet in 1 paragraph)?
1. Northern-born Republicans were often called carpetbaggers, why were they called this
(did they work in a store bagging carpets?)? Why did Southerners hate them?
Had come south after the war carrying all their positions in a bag made from carpeting/ Thought they were muching
2. African Americans supporting Reconstruction held some important offices, what were
they? What race held the largest % of Southern Republican voters?
Lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state over 600 to state legislature/ African-American
3. Who were the Ku Klux Klan and what were some of the different groups they
attacked? Can you see how this new governmental shift angered many white-southerners?
Secret society of white southerners opposed African Americans civil rights/African Americans, white republican
voters, and public officials
4. What was the General Amnesty Act of 1872? What was the result of this act?
Repealed Section III of 14th Amendment and allowed former Confederates to hold high rank/southern state governments became
controlled by Democratic Party Soon $$$$$ for reconstruction stopped and problems in the South until the 1950’s!!!
5. When was the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Explain your thoughts on the case.
1896/Homer Plessy-African American who bought a first class ticket but was arrested for sitting with whites/ it was crap and a
violation of the 14th amendment! This is where the “separate but equal” crap came and lasted until the 1950’s!!!
Section 4
6. After renting land for years, Charles White and his wife, Lucille, saved enough money to
buy their own farm in Texas. Reflecting back on the purchase…
7. What was sharecropping? How did it help out poor African Americans and whites?
Landowners provided land, tool s, and supplies and sharecroppers provided labor most of crop went to owner
8. How are “slavery” and “sharecropping” similar? What are your thoughts?
READ PAGES 530-531 to the kiddies!
9. Why did the Southern economy want to create a “New South”? What did they hope would come of it?
Tired of watching the economy suffer/wanted an industrial base/hoped it would strengthen economy COTTON + TEXTILES
10. What would you think of working in a Southern Mill? Give examples of what life
was like.
Children worked at age 12/worked 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, dust caused asthma/injuries/deaths
11. Why did children sometimes lose their limbs while working in those horrible mills?
12. How loud did Thomas Jackson scream as his arm was torn off in the slow grinder at
East Lowell Mill (Definitely not in the text)? How did they help ease his pain?
13. Who were some popular writers in the South? Why was southern literature so
nationally known?
Mark Twain, Mary Noailles Murfree, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, etc. / stories involved people and places in
the South and was exotic to northerners
14. What was one of the most important musical styles in Southern music? What were
they based on and how were they usually sung (Hint: Swing Low…Sweet Chariot…)?
Spiritual/based on Christian hymns and African music/lyrics described sorrows of slavery/leader would
sing and rest would repeat
Mr. Boothby
US HISTORY B
Lecture Notes CH 17 Sec 3 and 4
Name________________________
Read pages 524-535 in your textbook before you begin to answer these questions. Remember to always
answer by using complete sentences. Keep this sheet and all others in order in your three ring binders!!!
Section 3
I. ______________ elected with the support of African American __________ took control of
most Southern states. This led __________ William Henry Ravenel to express his concerns…
1a. Do you feel it was appropriate to ban former Civil War leaders from holding political office (explain on
the back of this sheet in 1 paragraph)?
1. Northern-born Republicans were often called carpetbaggers, why were they called this (did they work in
a store bagging carpets?)? Why did Southerners hate them?
2. African Americans supporting Reconstruction held some important offices, what were they? What race
held the largest percentage of Southern Republican voters?
3. Who were the Ku Klux Klan and what were some of the different groups they attacked? Can you see
how this new governmental shift angered many white-southerners?
4. What was the General Amnesty Act of 1872? What was the result of this act?
5. When was the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Explain your thoughts on the case.
Section 4
6. After renting _________ for years, Charles White and his wife, Lucille, __________ enough
money to buy their own __________ in Texas. Reflecting back on the purchase…
7. What was sharecropping? How did it help out poor African Americans and whites?
8. How are “slavery” and “sharecropping” similar? What are your thoughts?
9. Why did the Southern economy want to create a “New South”? What did they hope would come of it?
10. What would you think of working in a Southern Mill? Give examples of what life was like.
11. Why did children sometimes lose their limbs while working in those horrible mills?
12. How loud did Thomas Jackson scream as his arm was torn off in the slow grinder at East Lowell Mill
(Definitely not in the text)? How did they help ease his pain?
13. Who were some popular writers in the South? Why was southern literature so nationally known?
14. What was one of the most important musical styles in Southern music? What were they based on and
how were they usually sung (Hint: Swing Low…Sweet Chariot…)?