| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | the process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Organization that helped former slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President |
| Black Codes | Laws limiting freedom of former slaves |
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who wanted the federal goverment to change southern society |
| Civil Rights | Rights granted to all citizens |
| Fourteenth Amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all U.S. citizens |
| Freedmen's School | A school set up to educate former slaves |
| Sharecropping | System in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop |
| Ku Klux Klan | group that sought to keep former slaves powerless |
| Lynch | to punish a person by killing him or her without a trial |
| Fifteenth Amendment | gave African Americans full voting |
| Panic of 1873 | Financial Panic caused by failure of several powerful banks |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal between Republicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become President |
