| A | B |
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| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans: Equal under the law |
| Andrew Johnson | 1808-1875 President of United States during Reconstruction |
| Black codes | a set of laws that took away the freedoms of African Americans in the South after the Civil War |
| Civil Rights Bill 1866 | Congress passes to give African Americans rights -- President Johnson vetoes it |
| Commander of the Army Act | 1867- took away some of the president's power |
| Freedman's Bureau | An organization that provided food, clothing, medical care and legal advice to poor balcks and whites |
| Military Reconstruction Act | Established military control in the South |
| Radical Republicans | group of Republicans who controlled Congress in the 1860's and 1870's; wanted freemen to have equal rights and wanted strict requirements for readmission placed on former Confederate states |
| Reconstruction | the federal government's program of rebuilding the American South after the Civil War |
| Tenure of Office Act | placed limits on the presidents power to hire and fire government officials |
| Thaddeus Stevens | He led the Radicals in the Senate House. |
| Wade Davis Bill | Radical Republicans' bill to allow states to be readmitted to the Union |
| 13th Amendment | freed the slaves |
| 14th Amendment | gave the free black slaves citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | gave black male citizens the right to vote |
| Thaddeus Stevens | leader of the Radical Republicans |
| Carbetbaggers | white Northerners who came to the South afte the start of the Civil War - became involved in politics |
| Scalawags | Southern whites who cooperated with the Republican reconstrution gov't in the South |
| Redeemers | former Southern leaders who worked to overthrowReppublican Reconstructive Gov't |
| Ku Klux Klan | "Invisible Empire" secret terrorist society tactics - beatings, arson, lynching |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | becomes president because of the Compromise of 1877 |
| Compromise of 1877 | "Corrupt Bargain" - Reconstruction officially ends - Blacks lose economic, social, and political rights |
| Solid South | one political party in the South - Democratic |
| Mississippi Plan | ignored the 15th Amendment (vote) - methods - Poll Tax, Literacy Tests, grandfather clause |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Ct decision - said separate but equal facililties were o.k. |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws in the South that separated the races in public places |
| Booker T. Washington | "Atlanta Compromise" - wanted gradual changes for blacks ; becomes head of Tuskgee University |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Challenged segregation; fight peacefully against it; found the NAACP |
| Second Reconstruction | 1954 -1968 - 2nd time we tried to rebuild the U.S. |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Supreme Court rules segregation is illegal |
