1. Reconstruction Vocabulary

2. Laws passed in the Southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

3. Black Codes

4. Secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights

5. Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

6. 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

7. Reconstruction

8. Forced separation of people of different races

9. segregation

10. Name that southern Democrats gave to white southern Republicans during Reconstruction; roughly meaning “mean fellows.”

11. Scalawags

12. a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote

13. Poll tax

14. an official pardon issued by the government for an illegal act

15. amnesty

16. Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states

17. Jim Crow Laws

18. What white Southerners called Republicans from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction

19. Carpetbaggers

20. 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

21. Sharecropper

22. Laws that put the southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment

23. Reconstruction Acts

24. Members of Congress who felt that Southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union

25. Radical Republicans

26. Laws that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans

27. Civil Rights Act of 1866