Reconstruction Vocabulary
Laws passed in the Southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans
Black Codes
Secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
Klu Klux Klan (KKK)
Period following the Civil War during which the U. S Period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to rebuild the southern states and reunite the nation
Reconstruction
Forced separation of people of different races
segregation
Name that southern Democrats gave to white southern Republicans during Reconstruction; roughly meaning “mean fellows.”
Scalawags
a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
Poll tax
an official pardon issued by the government for an illegal act
amnesty
Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states
Jim Crow Laws
What white Southerners called Republicans from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
System used on southern farms after the Civil War in which sharecroppers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small share of the crops
Sharecropper
Laws that put the southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment
Reconstruction Acts
Members of Congress who felt that Southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
Radical Republicans
Laws that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866