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VA US 8.2
Reconstruction
Term | Definition |
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scalawag | a negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican party after the Civil War. |
carpetbagger | a negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War. |
segregation | a forced separation, often by race. |
Integration | the process of bringing together people of different races, religions, and social classes. |
sharecropping | a system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop. |
share-tenancy | much like sharecropping, except that the farmer chooses what crop to plant and buys the supplies. |
tenant farming | a system in which a farmer paid rent to a landowner for the use of the land. |
Ku Klux Klan | an organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic, racial and religious groups. |
Enforcement Acts | 1870 and 1871 laws, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Acts, that made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote. |