US History II Chapter 12 Section 2

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Scalawag

As southern white critics called them, were white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors. Scalawags found allies in northern white or black men who relocated to the South

Sharecropping

Embraced most of the South's black and white poor, a landowner dictated the crop and provided the sharecropper with a place to live as well as seeds and tools, in return for a "share" of the harvested crop.

Ku Klux Klan

Formed in Tennessee in 1866. Klan members roamed the countryside, especially at night, burning homes, schools, and churches, and beating, maiming, or killing African Americans and their white allies.

Segregation

Separation of the races

Carpetbagger

Southern white people resented what they felt was the invasion of opportunists, come to make their fortunes from the Souths misfortune. Southerners labeled the newcomers, "carpetbaggers", after the inexpensive carpet-cloth suitcases often carried by northerners.

Tenant farming

Tenant paid cash rent to a landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop - and free to choose where he would live.

Enforcement Acts

The acts made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizens right to vote. (Klu Klux Klan)

Integration

combining the races

Share-tenancy

like sharecropping, except that the farmworker chose what crop he would plant and bought his own supplies. Then , he gave a share of the crop to the landowner. In this system, the farmworker had a bit more control over the cost of supplies.


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