topic 9 lesson 1
a government pardon
amnesty
an uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
the men and women who had been enslaved
freedmen
a person who rents a plot of land from another person and in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropper
a government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves
Freedmen’s bureau
a secret society organized in the south after the Civil war to reassert white Supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
rebuilding of the south after the Civil War
Reconstruction
a white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction
Scalawag
an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation
Thirteenth Amendment