scalawag, A Southern white person who supported the Union during Reconstruction, carpetbagger, A Northerner who moved South to help during Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, A secret group that used violence to stop African Americans from gaining rights, sharecropper, A farmer who works land owned by someone else in return for part of the crops, poll tax, Money people had to pay to vote, literacy test, A reading test some people had to pass to vote, grandfather clause, A rule that let people vote only if their grandfather had voted, segregation, The separation of people by race, Jim Crow Laws, Unfair laws that kept Black and white people apart in public places, Plessy v. Ferguson, A court case that said segregation was legal if it was “separate but equal”, New South, A name for the South’s plan to grow industry and change after Reconstruction.

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