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| scalawag | a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction |
| carpetbagger | a rude nickname for a northerner who traveled to the south after the Civil War |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence |
| sharecropper | a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop |
| Compromise of 1877 | an agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional democrats accepting his inauguration after the disputed election of 1876 |
| poll tax | a tax required before a person could vote |
| literacy test | an exam to see if a person could read and write, used to suppress voting rights |
| grandfather clause | a law that excused a voter from the literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 |
| segregation | the legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | an 1896 Supreme Court case ruling that segregation was legal in public facilities as long as the facilities were equal |
| "New South" | a term used to describe the South in the late 1800's when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry |
