Chapter 12 Section 2

Ku Klux Klan

A group of white supremacist extremists

Scalawag

A person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.

Tenant Farming

A person who farms rented land.

Carpetbagger

A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.

Sharecropping

A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

remaking the southern economy

At first it was a shaky stat but the south slowly but shortly rebuilt

African Americans use political power

Black helped put radical republicans in the south Southern black men were now voters

Schools and churches

Blacks started to establish churches and schools in there community's

Freed people build communities

Blacks started to make economic relationships with the government

Scalawags and carpetbaggers take part in southern politics

Carpet baggers a scallywags were taking advantage of the post-civil war destruction by posing as workers getting paid first than leaving and buying property at low prices

Republican governments bring change

In 1870 the confederate states requirements under the radical reconstruction

Blanch K Bruce

• Born a slave, learned to read from his owner's son. • Moved to Missouri and ran a school for black children • Went to Oberlin College in Ohio • Went to South Mississippi and became a prosperous landowner • He was elected for several local political positions • Was later elected United State Senate

Systems for sharing that land

Land started being disputed and land owners did not have enough money to buy more land

Share-Tenancy

One who operates a farm owned by another, pays a share of the crop as rent, and provides labor, power and implements, and usually his share of seed and fertilizer

Successes and failures result

Republicans did not support woman's suffrage Reconstruction in the south made it able for woman to get job they previously couldn't

The ku klux klan sprikes back

Whites became upset with the free blacks and formed the ku klux klan to stop black from living in the south

Enforcement Acts

The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.

Integration

The action or process of integrating; intense questioning

Segregation

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart

The federal government responds

The government started to fight agents the kkk with the enforcement act