1. Important vocabulary in Unit 4.
Reconstruction
Important vocabulary in Unit 4.

2. Landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop.
While it allowed poor farmers some independence, it kept poor farmers in debt and did not allow for them to save.
Sharecropping

3. Northerners that moved to the South after the Civil War to help or make money. They were known to carry carpet-covered suitcases.
Southerners did not like carpetbaggers.
Carpetbaggers

4. Southerners who helped the government during Reconstruction
Southerners who helped the government during Reconstruction. Scalawags were unpopular in the South.
Scalawag was slang for an old worthless horse.
Scalawags

5. Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide clothing, food, medical care, and legal help to poor blacks and whites.
Freedmen’s Bureau

6. Laws passed by Southern states that kept African Americans separate from other Americans.
These laws made segregation legal.
These laws segregated schools, hospitals, and cemeteries.
Jim Crow Laws