| A | B |
|---|
| reconstruction | time period from 1865-1877 |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery |
| freedmen | newly freed slaves |
| tenant farmer | one who works in exchange for room + board |
| sharecropper | one farms anothers land in exchange for a share of the crop |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Federal organization that helped freedmen and poor whites |
| black codes | laws that limited the rights of freedmen |
| 14th amendment | provides civil rights to all born in U.S. |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that segregate the races |
| ten percent plan | Lincoln's plan to reunite the nation |
| Radical Republicans | want to make readmission of Southern states difficult |
| Wade-Davis bill | Radical republicans plan to readmit southern states |
| Thaddeus Stevens | leading radical Republican |
| 15th amendment | gave black males the vote |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president |
| impeached | accused of a wrong doing |
| Ku Klux Klan | radical group that tried to limit the rights of the freedmen |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 1876 Republican candidate |
| Sam Tilden | 1876 Democratic candidate |
| poll tax | fee that was paid in order to vote |
