Reconstruction vocabulary I

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

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.

Segregation

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

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

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

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

Suffrage

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

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

• The right to vote in political elections.

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

laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

•  Sovereign
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Juneteenth
• Black Codes

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction 

• Scalawag
• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republican
• Reconstruction

to cancel

• Reconstruction
• Vigilante
• Freedman
• Nullify

the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Sovereign
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Reconstruction 
• Emancipation Proclamation