2. Postwar South  Scalawags: White Southerner who joined the Republican Party after Civil War  Carpetbaggers: a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War

3. Postwar South  Right after the war ended, newly freed slaves went looking for their family and relatives

4. Former Slaves  Sharecropping: landowners give land, seed, & tools to workers in return for a part of the crops they raise  Tenant Farming: farm workers supply own tools and rent farmland for cash

5. Former Slaves  African Americans took advantage of their right to vote  90% Republican

6. Anti-Black Violence  Ku Klux Klan A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy

7. Voting Restrictions  Poll tax- an annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote  Literacy Tests  Grandfather clause

8. Segregation  Jim Crow Laws: laws separating black and white people in public and private facilities  Plessy v. Ferguson: court case ruling that “separate but equal” accommodations was legal