Reconstruction carpet bag & scalawag vocabulary

Appomattox court house

Location in the us state of Virginia where the American Civil war ended.general Robert.lee of the confederate states surrendered on April 5,1897 to general uylesses grant

Black codes

A code of laws adopted by some southern states of the us shortly after the civil war limiting the the rights of black people

Sharecropper

A farmer who rents land and gives part of his or hers crop as rent

Jim Crow laws

A number of laws requiring racial segregation in the United States

Poll tax

A tax required as a qualification for voting

Scalawag

Southerner acting in favor of reconstruction and support the government's plans after the civil war often for private again

Dixie

The eleven southern states that 1861 to form the new confederate states of America

Carpetbagger

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Freedmen's bureau

set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief land jobs fair threat meant and education

Reconstruction

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union