Reconstruction Vocabulary

The time after the Civil War when the U.S. government worked to rebuild the South and bring Southern states back into the country.

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, often to help with Reconstruction or to make money.

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

A farming system where poor farmers (often freedmen) rented land and gave part of their crops to the landowner instead of paying rent with money.

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

Laws that forced racial segregation (separation of Black and white people) in the South after Reconstruction.

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

White Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with the North, often seen as traitors by other Southerners.

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags