| A | B |
|---|
| Freedmen | FORMER SLAVES |
| Recontruction | THE STEPS TAKEN TO RESTORE THE SOUTHERN STATES TO THE UNION AND TO RERBUILD THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR |
| Radical | ONE WHO HOLDS EXTEREMIST VIEWS OR WANTS DRASTIC CHANGES |
| ratify | to approve or make valid |
| unionist | a person who supported the union during the entire civil war period |
| black code | a series of laws passed by the legislature after the civil war the restricted the freedmen's actions, movement, and conduct; the laws also required the freedmen to sign one-year labor contracts |
| contract | a written legal agreement |
| freedmens bureau | a federal government agency established in 1865 to provide food, shelter, educaton, healthcare, and employment gor former slaves in south |
| military reconstruction | the congressional reconstructon plan that placed the south in five military districts, required much stricter loyalty oaths, and required the states to ratify yhe fourteenth amedment before being readmitted to the union |
| carpet bagger | the term applied to a northern white who moved into the south to help carry out congress's reconstructionplan after the civil war |
| scalawag | the term applied to a native white southerner who supported the repulican party during reconstruction |
| Knights of the white camellia | a secret organazation that opperated in lousiana during military reconstruction and that used threats and physical violence to keep the freedmen from voting or a force them vote for democratic canidates |
| fraud | delierate deception for unfair or unlawful gain |
| anarchy | an absence of government or a state of lawlessness |
| white league | an organization established in 1874 by the reedemer democrats to restore political power to the prewar white democrats |
| sharecropping | an agriculture system that developed in the south after the civil war where a planter provided the land, the tools, and a cabin and the workers labored all year in return for a share of the profit when the crop was sold |
| credit | the ability something now and pay for the item over a period of time |
