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Olivia SocialStudies

8th Grade

TermDefinition
Freedman the men and women who had been enslaved
Jim Crow Laws laws that segregated people of different races in public places in the South
Reconstruction the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
New South a term that used to describe the South in the late 1800's when efforts were being made to expand the economy by the building up industry
Scalawag a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
Carpetbagger an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
Sharecropper a person who rents a plot of land from another and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
Grandfather Clause in the post-Reconstruction South, a law that excused voters from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
Plessy v. Ferguson an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
Black Codes Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
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