Key Terms and People: Reconstruction Era

Vocabulary flashcards defining key historical terms, figures, and events from the Reconstruction era.

carpetbagger

Northerner who moved to the South after the war

scalawag

White southerner who joined the Republican Party

Henry Grady

Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper editor who coined the term "New South"

Hiram Revels

First African American senator

sharecropping

System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops

tenant farming

Renting land from landowners for cash

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Terrorist group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting

panic of 1873

Financial crisis that started an economic depression

redemption

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

President who ended Reconstruction in 1877

Samuel J. Tilden

Democratic presidential candidate in 1876

Compromise of 1877

The political deal that gave the presidency to Hayes and ended Reconstruction

home rule

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