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