| A | B |
|---|
| literacy | ability to read or write |
| prejudice | unreasonable suspicion or hatred of a particular group |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| tolerance | allowing others to practice their own customs and beliefs |
| amendment | an addition or change to the Constitution |
| carpetbagger | name for a northerner who went to the south during Reconstruction to take government positions or in hopes of personal gain |
| impeach | to accuse an official of wrongdoing |
| radical | someone of an extreme political view |
| ratify | to approve |
| segregation | the separation of different people of different races |
| sharecropper | a farmer who works land owned by another and gives the land owner part of the harvest |
