Unit 8 Vocabulary

Southern laws that limited the freedom of African Americans by attempting to keep them as close as possible to the condition of slavery

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedman's Bureau

• grandfather clause

A rude name for northerners who went South after the Civil War to take advantage of the confusion in the southern states.

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• sharecropping

A law that gave African Americans the same legal rights as whites.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Black Codes

• Compromise of 1877

• Ten Percent Plan

Agreement in which Southern Democrats accepted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes's election to the presidency in 1876 in exchange for removing federal troops from the South.

• Compromise of 1877

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Freedman's Bureau

• Ten Percent Plan

An organization established by Congress to provide relief for all the South's poor people. Its greatest success was in the area of establishing schools.

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Freedman's Bureau

• Carpetbaggers

Laws passed in southern states that stated if your grandfather voted then you can vote regardless of your literacy.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Grandfather Clause

• Ten Percent Plan

The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against an elected official such as the U.S. President.

• Ten Percent Plan

• Radical Republicans

• impeachment

• Grandfather Clause

Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens who wanted more federal control over Reconstruction as well as the South to receive more punishment for secession.

• Scalawags

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• impeachment

Laws passed to protect African American rights. The first of these two laws divided the South into 5 military districts.

• Compromise of 1877

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Acts

• Sharecropping

A rude name for white Southerners who cooperated with Northerners and the Radical Republican Congressmen that were running Reconstruction.

• Radical Republicans

• Grandfather clause

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags