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CWAR and RECON pt.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Scalawags | White southerners (mostly ex-whigs) who supported or joined reconstruction governments. |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery or involuntary servitude except as the punishment for a crime |
| 14th Amendment | gave everyone (including recently freed black people) equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | gave everyone the right to vote under the law regardless of race, color, or past servitude |
| Sharecropping | a system where a land owner would allow someone to work the land in return for a share of the crops grown |
| Force Acts | a series of four acts passed by republican reconstructionists to protect the rights of black people under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments |
| Freedmen's Bureau | established by congress in 1865 to help millions of previously enslaved peoples and poor whites in the south |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the South which attempted to disable freed slaves and push them back into working on plantations and to remain under whites in the social hierarchy |
| Radical Republicans | A political faction which wanted to end slavery without compromise immediately and permanently |
| Carpet Baggers | northerners who opposed scalawags (many of them ex-union soldiers). Mostly middle class people who were drawn to the South's cheap land. |
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