| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | rebuilding and adding the South to the Union |
| Ford's Theater | place of Lincoln's assassination |
| John Wilkes Booth | killed President Lincoln |
| freedmen | freed slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | provided food, education and medical care |
| 40 Acres & a Mule | freedmen's payment after war |
| President Johnson | announced Reconstruction Plan |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln |
| Thaddeus Stevens | congressman; (40 Acres & a Mule) |
| Black Codes | laws passed to control former slaves |
| 1st Black Codes purpose | spell out freedmen's rights |
| 2nd Black Codes purpose | help planters find new workers |
| 3rd Black Codes purpose | called for segregation of blacks/whites |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | declared freedmen to be full citizens |
| 14th Amendment | Civil Rights amendment |
| 13th Amendment | End of Slavery |
| scalawags | worthless scoundrels |
| sharecropping | planters rented/shared land and crops with farmers |
| won the 1868 election | Ulysses S. Grant |
| newcomers to the South | carpet baggers |
| 15th Amendment | voting regardless of race, color, prev. servitude |
| Amnesty Act of 1872 | North decided to leave the South alone |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes(D.) becomes president/south controlled their own afairs |
| Jim Crow laws | enforced segregation after the Civil War |
