A secret society made up of white Southerners to help them regain power.

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawag

• KKK

• Carpetbagger

A government agency to help former slaves

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau

• 14th Amendment

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

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Carpetbagger

• Whig

A member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment of African Americans.

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Whigs

• Radical Republicans

Laws that severely limited the rights of freed African Americans

• Freedman's Bureau

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

• Black Codes

Farmers who rented and farmed a plot of land in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest time.

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

• KKK

• Sharecropper

The physical, political, and social rebuilding of the South

• Rebuild

• Reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau

• Amnesty

The separation of races

• Segregation

• 13th Amendment

• Freedman's Bureau

• Emancipation Proclamation

A term white Southerners used to describe other Southerners who supported black freedmen and the Republican Party.

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Whig

• Carpetbagger

A government pardon

• Pardon

• Amnesty

• Amendment

• Forgive