Friday, May 22, 2009

Reconstruction Vocabulary

In your own words, explain how these terms and people relate to the Reconstruction era in the United States, 1866-1876:
1. Reconstruction   2. sharecropper   3. scalawag   4. Charles Sumner   5. Andrew Jackson   6. Presidential Reconstruction   7. Congressional Reconstruction   8. Radical Republican   9. carpetbagger   10. "40 acres and a mule"   11. Freedman's Bureau   12. impeachment   13. Black codes   14. Hiram Revels

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Anonymous said...

Tanya G
Alex A
P.3

1.-the southern states were back to the union.
-They had to write a new constitution.
-They made the black codes illegal.

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

3. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way.

5. The 7th president.

6.a person who gets elected to be in charge of the united states.

7. something that has to do with the constitution .

8. that the public speaks for its self.

9.is northeners who go to the south and try to make money.

10.is aland that is big and large place where ypu can build a house.

11.