Reconstruction - Vocabulary

person from north who traveled south after the Civil war to help freed slaves and made money

• industry captains

• carpetbaggers

• military brass

laws that separated Blacks & Whites in public places

• Slavery Enactments

• Jim Crow Laws

• Southern Requirements

Reestablishment of friendly relations between the North and South

• friendship pact

• collaboration

• reconciliation

people who believe their group is better than others because of a trait such as color or religion

• supremacists

• chauvinists

• misanthrope

sharecroppers were people who

• shared food with the homeless after the Civil War

• opened a business for only freed claves

• paid for using a piece of land by giving a portion of the crops to the lands' owner

forgiving people who broke the law- after the Civil War: southern leaders who seceded from the Union were granted freedom

• retribution

• reprisal

• amnesty

1865-1877: the nation reunited and rebuilt after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Stagnation

• Remission

Freedman's Bureau was set up after the Civil War to

• allow only freed slaves to apply for opening a business

• rebuild the south (hospitals, schools, businesses, etc) using federal funds and troops to get the job done

• set up a spy network to keep an eye on what southerners were doing

a supremacist hate groups that attacked African Americans

• NAACP

• KKK

• BLM

laws that limited the economic and physical freedom of freed slaves immediately after the Civil war - they could be auctioned off if they did not get a job

• North-South Agreement

• White Unity Laws

• Black Codes