Tariff		Southerners who supported Reconstruction
Black codes		a person appointed or elected to act or speak on behalf of others
Reconstruction		Head of military supplies for the Confederacy
Abolishionist		African Americans who once had been enslaved
Selma		Another name for the United States
Confederacy		People of farmed land that belonged to someone else
Secede		Freed enslaved people in the Confederate States
Representative		Wanted Alabama to leave Union immediately
Union		elected President in 1860, wanted to abolish slavery
Carpetbaggers		President of the Confederate States.
freedmen		limited the rights of African Americans
Lewis Parsons		a tax on goods that are brought into one country from another to be sold
Sharecroppers		a long period of rebuilding
Scalawags		The process of making goods by hand or with machines
Montgomery		provisional governor of Alabama
Jefferson Davis		Also known as the Confederate States of America
Regiment		wanted to abolish, or end slavery
Josiah Gorgas		Delegates met here to discuss whether to secede
Manufactoring		abolished slavery throught the United States
Casualty		Unit of soldiers
William Yancey		A person who is injured, killed, or captured during a war
Emancipation Proclamation		Northerners who moved to the south and supported Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln		Basic system a society needs in order to function
Thirteenth Amendment		Withdraw or leave
Infrastructure		Important military supply center, close to mineral resources, good river and railroad transportation