Chapter 15 Vocabulary

extreme

• Reconstruction

• Amnesty

• Radical

• Adjust

after the Civil War, the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting the former Confederate States into the Union

• Reconstruction

• Amnesty

• Radical

• Adjust

the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons; protection from prosecution

• Reconstruction

• Amnesty

• Radical

• Adjust

to become more suited to new conditions

• Reconstruction

• Amnesty

• Radical

• Adjust

laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers

• Black Codes

• Override

• Exclude

• Suspend

• Impeach

to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

• Black Codes

• Override

• Exclude

• Suspend

• Impeach

to prevent from being involved in something; to shut out

• Black Codes

• Override

• Exclude

• Suspend

• Impeach

to reject or defeat something that has already been decided

• Black Codes

• Override

• Exclude

• Suspend

• Impeach

to temporarily set aside or stop operation of something

• Black Codes

• Override

• Exclude

• Suspend

• Impeach

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

• Scalawag

• Sharecropping

• Integrate