Reconstruction Vocab.

• Reconstruction


  Era when the South rejoined the United States after the Civil War
• Suffrage 


  Right to vote
• Martial Law

  Military controls the people and make sure all follow the laws
• Ratify


  To approve
• Abolish


  To put an end to; get rid of slavery
• Black codes


  Laws that limited the rights of African Americans
• Sharecropping


  System where land owners rent out plots of their land to people who farm it. The land owner gets most of the profit.
• Radical Republicans


  Group of men that controlled Congress during Reconstruction; wanted to punish the South
• Martial Law


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• Ratification/Ratify


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• Black Codes


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• Sharecropping


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