| A | B |
|---|
| Freedmen's Bureau | federal agency to help African Americans - gave out food clothing, established schools |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding the South after the Civil War-1865-1877 |
| sharecropping | system when a worker rented a plot of land to farm and paid rent with crops |
| black codes | limited freedom of former slaves |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places |
| Andrew Johnson | U.S. President-was impeached, found not guilty |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | U.S. Supreme court ruled that seperate was equal |
| Radical Republicans | wanted to punish the South after the Civil War, impeached Andrew Johnson |
| Thaddeus Stevens | leader of Radical Republicans |
| Reconstruction Acts of 1867 | divided the South into 5 military districts, each run by the army, stated how states could reenter Union |
| segration | separation of white and black people in public |
| amnesty | a pardon; offered to Southerners who would swear loyalty to Union |
| radical | extreme; Republican approach to Reconstruction |
| freedmen | former slaves |
| Thirteenth Amendment | banned slavery |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | overturned black codes |
| override | defeat President's veto |
| Tenure of Office Act | prohibited president from firing government officials; violated by A. Johnson, reuslted in impeachment |
| impeach | formal charges in wrongdoings; must then have a trial to see if offical is removed from office |
| Fifteenth Amendment | gave right to vote to all citizens [except women] |
| scalawag | Southerner on the side of the Union during Civil War; anti Confederacy |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who traveled to the South to work in Reconstruction governments |
| corrupton | dishonest or ilegal |
| integrated | opposite of segregate; includes all |
| poll tax | money paid to vote |
| literacy test | required voters to read and write before voting |
| grandfather clause | allowe people who did not pass the literacy test tovote if their grandfather voted before Reconstruction |
