| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | rebuilding the South |
| Amnesty | Official pardon |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that Abolished Slavery |
| Black Codes | Laws to return Blacks to plantations |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Opposed restrictions against Blacks |
| Disenfranchisement | exclusion from voting privileges |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment stating that native and naturalized people are citizens and all have the same rights |
| Scalawags | scoundrels |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans that resettled in the South |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment stating that voting rights can't be denied do to race |
| Coalition | combination of interests |
| Mississippi Plan | Forced all whites into the Democratic Party |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement to let the Republican votes for Hayes stand if he removed the last federal troops from the South |
| Share tenantry | Where a farmer and his family worked land for part of the crop |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws trying to prevent Blacks from voting |
| Solid South | Term describing how the south had become very white and Democratic |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme court ruling that segregation was lawful as long as both groups had equal access to facilities |
| Abraham Lincoln | Was the President that ended the Civil War |
| Andrew Johnson | Took the place of the assassinated president |
| Charles Sumner | Founder of the Republican party |
