Black codes were discriminatory laws enacted in many Southern states against African Americans after the Civil War. Sharecropping was a system where former slave masters leased land to former slaves in return for a portion of their crops, which critics called a "New System of Slavery." Redemption referred to Southern Democrats regaining power in Southern state governments in the 1870s.

1. Reconstruction Vocab

2. Black codes
• Laws enacted in many Southern
states that discriminated against
African Americans

3. Sharecropping
• “New System of Slavery”
• System in which landowners (former slave
masters) leased or rented land to farmworkers
(former slaves) in return for a portion of their
crops

4. Redemption
• Southern Democrats’ term for their return to
power in the South in the 1870s

5. Home Rule
• Ability to run state governments without the
interference of the federal government

6. The South-Before the Civil
War
The South=After the Civil
War (during Reconstruction)