Unit 8 Vocab - Civil War and Reconstruction

to set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions

• resistance

• emancipate

• integrate

• conscription

refusal to give in

• scalawags

• fugitive

• resistance

• segregation

nickname given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South

• Scalawags

• Carpetbagger

• fugitive

• emancipate

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction

• Scalawags

• Carpetbagger

• fugitive

• emancipate

to unite, or to blend into a united whole

• emancipate

• resistance

• sharecropping

• integrate

a person who flees a location to escape danger or persecution

• fugitive

• emancipate

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

a system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds for a share of the crop

• sharecropping

• conscription

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

separation or isolation of race, class, or group

• conscription

• fugitive

• segregation

• integrate

to draft citizens into military service

• integrate

• segregation

• emancipate

• conscription

timei period that included all the events that led to the Civil War

• antebellum

• carpetbaggers

• emancipation

• scalawags