Vocabulary A-C
An organization set up by the federal government.
What is agency?
Using wrong or unlawful ways for financial gain.
What is Corruption?
A pledge that promises loyalty to a government or other cause.
What is oath?
A white Southerner who controlled the new politicians who had little government knowledge.
What is scalawag?
Former slaves.
What are freedmen?
A pardon granted by the government.
What is amnesty?
A Northerner elected to political office in the South who took advantage of people; carried belongings in a carpetbag
What is a carpetbagger?
Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
A farmer who pays rent to a landowner for use of land
What is tenant farmer?
The formal process of justice carried out in a court of law.
What is due process?
The killing of a politically important person.
What is assassination?
A case brought before a court of law.
What is lawsuit?
A farmer who pays some of his or her crop to a landownwer as rent.
What is sharecropper?
To charge a president with misconduct.
What is impeach?
Laws that prevented African Americans from owning certain land, voting, and working certain skilled jobs.
What are Black Codes?
To reject or not accept.
What is override?
Basic human rights belonging to all people.
What are Civil Rights?
Wrongdoing by someone holding a political or business position.
What is misconduct?