Lesson 175 A New South

1. Scalawag

• a white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain.

• Virtuoso
• Scoundrel
• Rascal

2. Carpetbagger

• Southern who moved to the North after the American Civil War
• Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War
• Person who sells carpets
• A type of bag used for traveling

3. Sharecropper

• A sharecropper is a person who owns the land they work on.
• A sharecropper is a person who receives a fixed salary for their work.
• A sharecropper is a person who works in a factory.
• A sharecropper is a person who works a piece of land in exchange for a share of the crop produced.

4. Hiram Revels

• Harriet Tubman
• was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator.

• Frederick Douglass
• Booker T. Washington

5. Blanche Bruce

• Clara Barton
• Henry Johnson
• Alice Smith
• the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate

6. Conservatives

• is a political, social, and cultural philosophy that aims to preserve and promote traditional values, customs, and institutions.

• Liberals
• Socialists
• Moderates

7. Ku Klux Klan

• White supremacist hate group
• Civil rights organization