Reconstruction Vocab

Black codes

• Laws enacted in many Southern states that discriminated against African Americans

Sharecropping

• “New System of Slavery”• System in which landowners (former slave

masters) leased or rented land to farmworkers (former slaves) in return for a portion of their crops

Redemption

• Southern Democrats’ term for their return to power in the South in the 1870s

Home Rule

• Ability to run state governments without the interference of the federal government

The South-Before the Civil War

The South=After the Civil War (during Reconstruction)