1. Reconstruction Vocabulary
Significance
Reconstruction………….pg. 432
Carpetbagger…………...pg
Scalawag………………..pg. 443
Impeach…………………pg. 440
Black Codes…………….pg ,440
Dry Farming…………….pg
Radical Republican…....pg
Tenant Farming………...pg
Sharecropper…………..pg
Freedmen……………....pg

2. Reconstruction Vocabulary
CLASS SET
Reconstruction: The effort to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
Carpetbagger: A Northerner in the South who was working for the Reconstruction government.
Scalawag: A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Impeach: To bring charges against.
Black Codes: Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.
Dry Farming: A method of farming that used a type of plowing that left loose soil on top of the ground, which kept water in the ground by slowing evaporation.
Radical Republican: A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
Tenant Farming: Working land owned by another and paying rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.
Sharecropper: A tenant farmer who is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food, and receives a share of the value of the crop.
Freedmen: Freed slaves