Vocabulary

Jim crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States

Black codes
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work.

Sharecropper
a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

Contract System
A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more parties that is enforceable at law

Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.

Radical Republican
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party

Civil Rights
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

14 Amendment
citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

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Vocabulary

Jim crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States

Black codes
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work.

Sharecropper
a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

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