Civil War/ Reconstruction Vocab

Secede

• to withdraw from a

  group or organization, 

  especially a political body

  
  

• Favoring a region of the country rather

  than the interest of the entire nation

  
  

• military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.

name given by southerners to

northerners who

moved to the South during Reconstruction

Favoring a region of the country rather

than the interest of the entire nation

military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.

A farmer who receives an agreed

 share of the crop minus charges

Southern writers who supported reconstruction

after the Civil War

a person who lives and works on another

person’s land, usually by contract

Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia

Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon

right to vote to all men regardless of race

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment