AMH Terminology #1

laws passed by Southern states after Civil War to limit rights of free blacks

fee required in order to vote that kept blacks from voting in the South

a plantation system where white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved workers

an ideology of marriage and family life, which called for men to practice authority, while women devoted themselves to motherhood and family

Reconstruction era system where freedmen agreed to work land and pay a portion of their harvest to the landowner

illegal device enabling a creditor to take possession of the property of a borrower, including the right to have it sold in payment of the debt in return for supplies

policy of using debt as a pretext for forced labor

a pejorative term applied to Southern whites who joined Republicans during Reconstruction

a name given by Southerners to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction (from the cheap suitcases, known as carpetbags, that held their belongings)

the legal requirement that people of all races have equal access to public facilities and services

political ideology that celebrated individual liberty, private property, a competitive market economy, free trade, and limited government

self-government by a state within the federal system

an import duty designed to protect domestic products from cheaper foreign goods

any giant corporation that dominated a sector of the economy and wielded monopoly power

monetary system by which a country links the amount of money circulating, at any given time, to the amount of gold held in its Treasury

paper money issued by the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War to finance the war effort

the name given to the drought-stricken Great Plains by Euro-Americans in the early 19th century

African-Americans who left the South after Reconstruction's collapse and the Depression of 1873, and sought homesteads on the Western frontier

the practice of marriage to multiple partners

the reduction of production and transportation costs (and increased profits) achieved through large-scale production

efforts by U.S. government agents and Christian missionaries to persuade people of color to adopt white ways

individual ownership of land

the denial of a person’s right to vote

the policy of seeking land and trade beyond a country’s boundaries to expand and improve upon national resources and economy

the system of racial segregation that developed in the post-Civil War South

extralegal executions typically performed by mobs against marginalized groups

the period between 1865 in 1877 in which newly freed slaves, abolitionists, and Republican politicians attempted to make changes in the South

ex-Confederates who sought to return the political and economic control of the South to white Southerners in the decades after the Civil War