BCA: 7th Grade: Social Studies: Chapter 13,14,15 Vocabulary

the campaign to end slavery in the United States

• abolitionist

• suffrage

• labor movement

• civil rights movement

to charge a public official with misconduct in office

• impeach

• overrule

• bureau

• ratify

to replace a rule or plan with a different one

• replace
• overrule

• remove
• alter

state laws that limited the economic and physical freedoms of Black Americans

• black codes

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act

a reading test that votes have to pass before voting, often used unfairly to disenfranchise African American voters

• voter ID
• literacy test
• registration fee
• poll tax

a southerner who welcomed carpetbaggers and Northern ideas after the Civil War

• scalawag
• abolitionist
• unionist
• rebel

an office or department for transacting a particular business

• bureau

• department
• workspace
• branch

a non-governmental fighting force structured like a military force

• private security firm
• militia
• paramilitary

• rebel alliance

a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest

• Tenant farmer
• Landlord
• Sharecropper
• Agricultural worker

a person from the North who came to live in the South after the Civil War to profit during Reconstruction

• Carpetbagger
• Southern Belle
• Unionist
• Reconstructionist