Guided Reading Guided Reading Activity 17-4Activity 17-4

Recalling the FactsRecalling the Facts

Change in the SouthChange in the South

1. Horace Greeley1. Horace Greeley 2. It pardoned most former 2. It pardoned most former

ConfederatesConfederates 3. Democrats won by a 30,000 majority3. Democrats won by a 30,000 majority 4. a series of political scandals4. a series of political scandals 5. a special commission5. a special commission 6. President Rutherford B. Hayes6. President Rutherford B. Hayes 7. They had “redeemed,” or saved, the 7. They had “redeemed,” or saved, the

South from Republican ruleSouth from Republican rule 8. industries based on coal, iron, 8. industries based on coal, iron,

tobacco, cotton, lumber, and the tobacco, cotton, lumber, and the region’s other abundant resourcesregion’s other abundant resources

9. textile, lumbering and tobacco processing, iron and steel9. textile, lumbering and tobacco processing, iron and steel

10. a cheap and reliable workforce and a railroad-building 10. a cheap and reliable workforce and a railroad-building boomboom

11. sharecropping and reliance on a single cash crop (cotton)11. sharecropping and reliance on a single cash crop (cotton)

12. by charging a poll tax, which most African Americans could 12. by charging a poll tax, which most African Americans could not afford or by making them take a literacy test, which they not afford or by making them take a literacy test, which they could not pass because they had so little educationcould not pass because they had so little education

13. Jim Crow laws required African Americans and whites to be 13. Jim Crow laws required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place where they might come separated in almost every public place where they might come in contact with each otherin contact with each other

14. lynching, or hanging14. lynching, or hanging

15. it did not make good on the promise of true freedom to 15. it did not make good on the promise of true freedom to formerly enslaved African Americansformerly enslaved African Americans