Reconstruction carpetbaggers scalawags

Appomattox court house

Location in u.s. state of Virginia where the American civil war ended. General Robert e. Lee of the confederate states surrendered on April 9, 1865 to general Ulysses s. Grant.

Black Codes

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

Sharecropper

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

Jim Crow laws

A number of laws requiring racial segregation in the United States

Carpetbagger

A person from the northern states who went to the south after the civil war to profit from the reconstruction

Poll tax

A tax required as a qualification for voting

Freeman's Bureau,

Set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief,land,jobs, fair treatment, and education.

Scalawag

Southerners acting in favor of reconstruction and supported the governments plans after the civil war often for private gain.

Dixie

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

Reconstruction

The period after the civil war in which the states formerly part of the confederacy were brought back into the United States