Reconstruction Era Vocabulary

Compromise of 1877

• The new form of slavery where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

• an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

Sharecropping

• The new form of slavery where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

• an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

Ulysses S. Grant

• The new form of slavery where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

• an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

Freedmen

• The new form of slavery where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

• an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

scalawags

• white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

carpetbaggers

• white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• Northerners who went south to help with Reconstruction

• the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

• an emancipated slave

13th Amendment

• ended slavery

• gave Black Americans citizenship and civil rights

• stated that race could not be used to deny the right to vote

• an emancipated slave

14th Amendment

• ended slavery

• gave Black Americans citizenship and civil rights

• stated that race could not be used to deny the right to vote

• an emancipated slave

15th Amendment

• ended slavery

• gave Black Americans citizenship and civil rights

• stated that race could not be used to deny the right to vote

• an emancipated slave

Robert E. Lee

• ended slavery

• a Confederate general during the Civil War

• stated that race could not be used to deny the right to vote

• an emancipated slave