Vocab

​Military districts -military formations that are responsible for certain areas or territories

Cash Crops - crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market to make a profit Plantations - large farms that had several cash crops and owned many slaves

Sharecropper - naturally occurring materials that can be used by man Tenant

farming - the features of a geographical area including landforms, climate, soil, and natural vegetation

Reconstruction - time period following the Civil War to rebuild and enforce new amendments added to the U.S. Constitution.

Abolitionist - to permanently ban or get rid of

Martial Law - military authority over states/towns/cities

​slavery Freedmen’s Bureau - - helped freed slaves find work, housing, medicine, and schooling established by the government

Scalawags - a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal; white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War, often for personal profit

Carpetbaggers - a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections, but sought to profit from the Reconstruction

Emancipation Proclamation - speech given by Abraham Lincoln, declaring that slaves were free. Impeach- charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct; ​removal of

13th Amendment - slavery prohibited in the United States

14th Amendment - all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside

15th Amendment - right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Juneteenth - A holiday to commemorate the day that slaves in Texas found out that they were free **Extra Note: the slaves in TX found out they were free 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been announced.