Period 5 - Chapter 17: South, Sharecropping, and Scalawags

what was sharecropping

System where a landowner allowed people to live and work his land in return for a portion of their profits

what was a carpetbagger

a norther born republican who moved South to profit off its economic failure

what was tenant farming

a system where a landlord rented land to his tenants for them to work with their own tools and crops

what is a scalawag

a white southern Republican

how did the South try to prevent a Republican win?

by intimidating African American voters in the South

what domestic terrorist group became a federal issue

the KKK