| A | B |
|---|
| assassination | murder of public official |
| Moderates | people who avoid extreme political views |
| Black Codes | laws passed in South to restrict rights of blacks |
| Freedman's Bureau | agency run by army to help blacks in the South |
| carpetbaggers | northerners who went South to profit after the Civil War |
| freedmen | freed former slaves |
| Thirteenth Amendment | change in Constitution that outlawed slavery |
| Fourteenth Amendment | made U.S. citizens also citizens of states and gave equal protection of law |
| Fifteenth Amendment | change in Constitution that gave blacks right to vote |
| Amnesty Act of 1872 | law pardoning former Confederate officials and let them vote and hold office |
| crop lien system | system in which money was lent to farmers for supplies and repaid at harvest |
| Election of 1876 | disputed election in which Tilden won majority of electoral vote but not presidency |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | law requiring southern states to ratify Fourteenth Amendment to reenter the Union |
| Tenure of Office Act | law prohibiting a president from removing an appointed official with consent of Congress |
| Ku Klux Klan | bubbas in bedsheets who terrorized blacks |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | law making blacks citizens |
| Compromise of 1877 | agreement to allow Hayes to be president in exchange for ending Reconstruction |
| scalawags | southern white Republicans during Reconstruction |
| Radicals | people who favor sudden or extreme changes |
| amnesty | official pardon |
| watershed | important turning point in history |
| sharecropping | system in which landowners furnished supplies to laborers in exchange for part of the crop |
