History Unit 2 Study Vocab

A white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction...

• Ku Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecroppers

An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War...

• Carpetbaggers

• Plague

• Influence

• Grandfather Causes

A clergyman and teacher became the nations first black senator in 1870...

• Compromise of 1877

• Corruption

• Dominate

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

Worked to keep African Americans and white republicans out of office...

• Ku Klux Klan

• Plague

• Influence

• Segregation

People who rented and formed a plot of land...

• Sharecropper

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Jim Crow Laws

Guilty of dishonest practices...

• Discontent

• Plague

• Corruption

• Dominate

Unhappy; restless desire...

• Discontent

• Scalawags

• Kl Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

To control, rule, or govern...

• Dominate

• Influence

• Jim Crow Laws

• Grandfather Causes

Ability to sway or affect opinion or action...

• Influence

• Literacy Test

• Poll Tax

• Plague

To trouble, annoy, or tournament...

• Plague

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Compromise of 1877

• Carpetbaggers