Carpetbagger - Northerners who came South after the Civil War. Voted Republican, viewed negatively by southerners held high offices. , Scalawags - White southerners who joined blacks and carpetbaggers in the Republican Party. Viewed as traitors by most southerners. , Senate - Hiram Revels were the first African Americans elected to what government position? , Mule - This system of compensation was given to freed slaves after the Civil War by Sherman. It was given the nickname 40 acres and a ___ ? (what was the animal), True - True or False: Farming in the South created a cycle of debt, which began with sharecropping., Tenantfarming - A system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash. , Military - President Grant's strength was that he was a great _____ leader. , Congress - In the Credit Mobilier Scandal it was found that officials from the railroad impoverished the railroad and then bribed which government officials to block any investigation? , Taxes - In the Whiskey Ring, internal revenue collectors accepted bribes from whiskey distillers so they did not have to pay what? (plural), False - True or False: Grant ran for reelection. , Hayes - What is the last name of the president who was elected in 1876? , redeemers - What was the name given to those that set out to rescue the South from what they viewed as a decade of mismanagement? , Restored - Looking at the results of the Reconstruction. One positive was that the Union was ________., sharecropping - Looking at the results of the Reconstruction, what system takes hold in the South? ,

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