| A | B |
|---|
| freedmen | former slaves |
| literacy test | required voters to prove they could read before they could vote |
| Wade-Davis bill | proposed that 50% of former confederates had to pledge an oath of loyalty before being readmitted to the Union |
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding the nation following the Civil War |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | said segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal |
| poll tax | resulted in people having to pay a fee to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that enforced segregation |
| 15th amendment | gave all males, including black, the right to vote |
| black codes | southern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks |
| sharecropper | farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner part of the harvest |
| grandfather clause | allows whites to vote who could not pass a literacy test or pay a poll tax |
| Radical Republican Reconstruction ideas | divided states into districts, and required them to ratify 14th and 15th amendments |
| 14th amendment | said that any person who was born in the U.S. was a U.S. citizen |
| Redemption period | Time frame after reconstruction when Georgia fought to overcome hardships of Reconstruction |
| Bourbon Triumvirate | Group of Democrate wanting stronger economic ties with the North |
| Alfred Colquitt, Joseph Brown, John Gordon | The three democrats of the Bourbon Triumvirate |
| William and Rebecca Felton | Reformers helping to end the Triumvirate |
| She became the first female US Senator at 87, supported Womens voting, prohibition and prisoner reform | Rebecca Felton |
| Joel Chandler Harris | wrote about race relations problems through his 'Uncle Remus" stories |
| Juliette Gordon Low | Founded the Girl Scouts in 1912 |
| A newspaper editor and spokesman for the "New South" | Henry Grady |
| Thomas Watson | Friend to the farmers and leader of the Peoples Party, helped start Rural Free Delivery of mail |
