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SS Chapter 16
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an amnety? | group pardon |
| What is freedmen? | enslaved people who had been freed by the war |
| What is a black code? | new laws used by southern states to control African Americans |
| What is a scalawag? | southern whites who opposed secession |
| What is a carpetbagger? | name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political office |
| What is impeachment? | bringing of formal charges against a public official |
| What is a poll tax? | personal tax to be paid before voting |
| What is a literacy test? | test to see if a person can read and write |
| What is a grandfather clause? | provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1,1867 |
| What is segragation? | enforced separation of races |
| What is a sharecropper? | laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it in echange for a share of the value of the crop |