Unit 7b Key Terms

What does the term "Reconstruction" refer to?

• The process of rebuilding the Union with the readmission of the southern states

• The freeing of someone from slavery

• The practice of receiving a portion of the crops in exchange for living and farming on a large estate

• A tract of land with a home on it

What is the meaning of "Emancipation"?

• The process of rebuilding the Union

• The freeing of someone from slavery

• A tract of land with a home on it

• Referred to Northerners who moved to the South

What does "Sharecropping" involve?

• The freeing of someone from slavery

• The practice of receiving a portion of the crops in exchange for living and farming on a large estate

• Referred to Southerners who cooperated with federal authorities

• A tract of land with a home on it

Who were "Carpetbaggers"?

• Referred to Southerners who cooperated with federal authorities

• Referred to Northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War to take advantage of the unsettled political situation

• The freeing of someone from slavery

• A tract of land with a home on it

What does the term "Scalawag" refer to?

• Referred to Northerners who moved to the South

• The freeing of someone from slavery

• Referred to Southerners who cooperated with federal authorities during Reconstruction, often gaining an advantage

• A tract of land with a home on it

What is a "Homestead"?

• The process of rebuilding the Union

• A tract of land with a home on it

• The practice of receiving a portion of the crops

• Referred to Northerners who moved to the South

What does the term "States' Rights" refer to?

• The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

• The sharing of power between federal and state governments

• Taxes placed on foreign goods

• The act of cancelling something

What are "Protective Tariffs"?

• The sharing of power between federal and state governments

• Taxes placed on foreign goods to protect American industries

• The act of cancelling something

• To give up power or territory

What is "Federalism"?

• The act of cancelling something

• An area, like a part of a country

• The sharing of power between federal and state governments

• To give up power or territory

What does "Nullification" mean?

• The act of cancelling something

• To give up power or territory

• An area, like a part of a country

• Taxes placed on foreign goods