Unit 8 Vocabulary

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A secret society made up of white Southerners to help them regain power.

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KKK

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A government agency to help former slaves

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Freedman's Bureau

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a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

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Carpetbagger

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A member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment of African Americans.

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Radical Republicans

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Laws that severely limited the rights of freed African Americans

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Black Codes

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Farmers who rented and farmed a plot of land in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.

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Sharecropper

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The physical, political, and social rebuilding of the South

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Reconstruction

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The separation of races

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Segregation

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A term white Southerners used to describe other Southerners who supported black freedmen and the Republican Party.

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Scalawag

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A government pardon

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Amnesty