1. Reconstruction Vocabulary

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

3. Laws that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866

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

5. 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

6. Period (1865-1877) 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

7. Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states
Jim Crow laws

8. Forced separation of people of different races
segregation

9. an official pardon issued by the government for an illegal act
amnesty

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

11. Laws ( ) that put the southern states under military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the 14th Amendment
Reconstruction Acts

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

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

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