| A | B |
|---|
| freedman | freed slave |
| black codes | laws that limited the rights of freedmen in the South after the Civil War |
| scalawag | white southerner who supported Radical Republicans |
| carpetbagger | name for a northerner who went to the South during Reconstruction |
| sharecropper | farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner part of the harvest |
| poll tax | fee paid by a voter in order to vote |
| literacy test | examination to see if a person can read and write |
| grandfather clause | law passed by southern states after the civil war. Excuted a voter from a poll tax or literacy test if his father or grandfather had voted before 1867. Kept most African Americans from voting. |
| segregation | separation of people of different races. |
