The Reconstruction Era

Another name for former slaves

• sharecropper

• freedmen

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

To pardon a group of people

• impeach

• radical

• amnesty

• reconstruction

He assassinated Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Scalawag

• John Wilkes Booth

Southern laws that denied most legal rights to newly freed slaves.

• Black Codes

• impeachment

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

people who favor drastic political, economic or social reforms.

• carpetbaggers

• freedmen

• radicals

• scalawags

accusing government officials of misconduct in office

• impeach

• amnesty

• radical

• black codes

Southerns who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War

• scalawags

• carpetbagger

• freedmen

• radical

Tenant farmers who give part of their crops as rent

• scalawag

• sharecropper

• radical

• freedmen

Northerners who moved south to take advantage of southerners immediately after the end of the Civil War

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• radicals

• freedmen

After the Civil War, literacy tests and paying to vote were used to

• keep all citizens from voting

• give poor people equal voting rights

• keep freedmen from voting