Reshaping the Nation Vocabulary

Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

• Grandfather Clause

Members of the Republican party who believed the Confederacy should be punished for their actions and believed African Americans were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Freedmen

Name given to Northern whites who moved south after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Carpetbagger

• Freedmen

Name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported the Republican Reconstruction of the South.

• Scalawag

• Freedmen

• Carpetbagger

• Radical Republicans

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States following the Civil War.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

The granting of pardon to a large number of persons, protection from prosecution for an illegal act.

• Segregation

• Amnesty

• Freedmen

• Impeachment

A article that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began.

• Poll Tax

• Black Codes

• Grandfather Clause

• Jim Crow Laws

A tax of a fixed amount per persons that had to be paid before the person could vote.

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Jim Crow Laws

• Grandfather Clause

A method used to prevent civilians from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specific level.

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Black Codes

• Literacy Test

A person freed from slavery.

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Freedmen

• Carpetbagger