Unit 7 Key Terms Review

To put an end to something

• emancipate

• abolish

• proclaim

• restrict

the practice of a wealthy landowner renting land to a formerly enslaved person or to a poor white farmer in exchange for a share of the harvest

• tenant farming

• sharecropping

• capitalizing

• Carpetbagging

amendment

• a right or responsibility

• a change or addition to a written document

• a law based on a written document

• a basic structure or plan

the practice of a wealthy landowner renting land, animals, equipment, and supplies to a formerly enslaved person or to a poor white farmer in exchange for a large share of the harvest

• tenant farming

• sharecropping

• free farming

• rental farming

a person from the North who came to live in the South after the Civil War to profit during Reconstruction

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

• freedmen

• speculator

a Southerner who welcomed carpetbaggers and Northern ideas after the Civil War

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

• opportunist

• freedmen

having rights, privileges, responsibilities, and duties as a member of a community, state, or nation

• democracy

• government

• citizenship

• common good

the period following the Civil War when the Southern states were brought back into the Union (1865-1877)

• Reconstruction

• Reconfederation

• Reconciliation

• Resistance

Organization that provided food, medical care, and school for freed African Americans and poor whites after the Civil War

• Sharecroppers

• Union

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Confederacy

leniency

• the quality of being more merciful or forgiving than necessary

• the quality of being tougher than other people

• the quality of growing or expanding

• the quality of learning or gaining knowledge