Reconstruction Vacab

Us History

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Sharecropping

Landowner allows a person to use part of his land for crops. In exchange the person pays with half of their crops. Cycle of Poverty

Black Code

Laws passed by the south intending to restricting African Americans freedom

Radical Republican

Republican party that wanted to secure rights for freed slaves during the reconstruction

Scalawags

White southerner who collided with republicans during reconstruction, southerners thought they were traders and disloyal to the south

Carpet Bagger

Term used by the south to any former northerners who risked their lives to help southern freedmen

Reconstruction Amendments

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (Sick Cats Vomit) slavery citizenship and voting

Tenant Farming

Similar to sharecropping but the person pays the landowner money, and actually got through to being wealthy

Freedmen's Bureau

Northern abolitionists who went to the south and help educate in schools and teach them skills for jobs to those that needed it

KKK

(ku klux klan) Secret organization in the south aimed at the blacks and their freedom; kills and damages people/places