Reconstruction Vocabulary

Carpetbagger

• A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to make money

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

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

• 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 make money

• A white Southerner who agreed with Reconstruction

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

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

• A freed slave

• A white Southerner who worked with northerners to help with Reconstruction

Sharecropping

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

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

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

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

Literacy

• The ability to read and write.

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

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

• an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

Segregation

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

• separation based on race, class, ethnic group, religion or gender.

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

• an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

The amendment that freed all slaves.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws passed directly after the civil war that restricted former slaves' freedom.

• jim crow laws

• scalawag

• reconstruction

• black codes