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Word Study 10 Part 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went South after the Civil War |
| Hiram Rhodes Revels | the nations's first African-American senator in 1870 |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to regain power by means of violence |
| sharecropper | a person who rents a plot of land to farm in exchange for a share of the crop |
| poll tax | restrictions passed by Southern states that required voters to pay a fee each time they voted |
| literacy tests | required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution to vote |
| grandfather clauses | laws that excused voters from taking literacy tests if their father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan. 1, 1867 |
| Segregation (Jim Crow Laws) | legal separation of races |
| "New South" | term to describe the South after the Civil War with a new expanded economy, used vast natural resources to build up own industry (independent) |
| Homestead Act | land policy that promised 160 acres of free land to anyone who was head of the household, who had not fought for the Confederacy, and paid a small filing fee and improved the land over five years (meant to help settle the West) |
| Morill Acts | offered states a federal land grant to build schools that would teach and promote scientific farming and engineering |
| Dawes Act | encouraged Native Americans to become farmers, some reservations were divided up and given to individual Native American families |
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