Reconstruction Politics
This group made up the largest portion of southern Republicans during Reconstruction
African Americans
This secretive white supremacist group used violence and terror to undermine Reconstruction governments.
Ku Klux Klan
This system trapped many southern farmers, black and white, in cycles of debt through liens on their cotton crops
Nickname given to the white southerners who joined the Republican Party
Scalawags
This series of congressional laws aimed to protect Black voting rights and suppress racial terrorism
Enforcement Acts
Completed in 1869, this railroad linked the East and West and symbolized the rise of big business
Transcontinental Railroad