U.S. History Terms V

Tax paid with goods rather than money.

Freed slave.

Laws that limited the rights of freed men in the South after the Civil War.

Group of Republicans in Congress who wanted to protect the rights of freedmen in the South and keep rich southern planters out of power.

Period after the Civil War when Republicans controlled Congress and passed strict laws affecting the South.

White Southerner who supported the Radical Republicans.

Name for northerner who went to the South during Reconstruction.

Farmer who works land owned by another and gives landowner part of the harvest.

Secret group first set up in the South after the Civil War. Members terrorized blacks and other minority groups.

Fee paid by a voter in order to vote.

Examinations to see if a person can read and write.