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CHAPTER 18 SECTION 3 VOCABULARY

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SCALAWAGS

  • White southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

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CARPETBAGGERS

  • Uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War

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CONSERVATIVES

  • During Reconstruction white Southerners who resisted change

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KU KLUX KLAN

  • Secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white Supremacy by means of violence

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SHARECROPPERS

  • Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange fro a share of the crop