Reconstruction Vocabulary

Carpetbagger

• A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A civil rights organization.

• When a tenant farmer cultivates their farmland and gives a part of each crop as rent.

• To force someone to follow a law, rule, or obligation

Scalawag

• A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A civil rights organization.

• A white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstructions, usually for personal profit. Used as an insult by Southern Democrats.

• To force someone to follow a law, rule, or obligation

Freedmen

• A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• An emancipated slave.

• A white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstructions, usually for personal profit. Used as an insult by Southern Democrats.

• To force someone to follow a law, rule, or obligation

NAACP

• A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• An emancipated slave.

• A white Southerner who worked with northern Republicans during Reconstructions, usually for personal profit. Used as an insult by Southern Democrats.

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A civil rights organization.

Radical

• Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.

• An emancipated slave.

• The ability to read and write.

• The separation by an institution of people or things from others or a main group based on race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender.

Civil Rights

• Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• The ability to read and write.

• The separation by an institution of people or things from others or a main group based on race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender.

Sharecropping

• Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• The ability to read and write.

• When a tenant farmer cultivates their farmland and gives a part of each crop as rent.

Tenant-Farming

• Representing or supporting an extreme or progressive portion of a political party.

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• When a person farms rented land.

• When a tenant farmer cultivates their farmland and gives a part of each crop as rent.

Suppression

• The act of suppressing or preventing an activity or publication.

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• When a person farms rented land.

• When a tenant farmer cultivates their farmland and gives a part of each crop as rent.

Oppression

• The act of suppressing or preventing an activity or publication.

• The prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control of a person or people group.

• When a person farms rented land.

• When a tenant farmer cultivates their farmland and gives a part of each crop as rent.