Vocabulary Quiz - Reconstruction

Whites who retook power after Georgia was readmitted to the union.

• Redeemer

• Klu Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

A system where a landowner provided all equipment and supplies needed to grow crops and in return the farmers provided the labor and gave the owner half the crop.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Landlords

Northern whites who moved south after the war to make money.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Redeemers

A former slave.

• Scalawag

• Freedmen

• Abolitionist

The (a)   th amendment ended slavery.

A law in the South that limited the freedom of former slaves.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Black Codes

A secret organization founded to take away rights gained by former slaves.

• Klu Klux Klan

• Georgia General Assembly

• Bureau of the Black Codes

The (a)   th amendment extended the right to vote to black males.

A person from the south who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.

• sharecroppers

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

Federal agency set up to help former slaves and poor whites after the war.

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Reconstruction market