| A | B |
| Andrew Johnson | president after Lincoln assassination |
| U.S. Grant | Civil War hero/President 1868 |
| Horatio Seymour | Defeated in 1868 by Grant |
| Samuel Tilden | Won popular vote in 1876 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Won the presidental race by one electoral vote in 1876 |
| Ida B. Wells | Civil rights activist and Journalist |
| segreation | seperation of races |
| Reconstruction Acts | divided the south into five military districts in 1867 |
| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | Issued by President Lincoln |
| land reform | giving slave land from plantations |
| Edwin Stanton | Secretary of war |
| Union League | political group assisting Black Americans |
| crop-lien | a system designed to prevent Blacks from making a decent living |
| economy | Factories and railroads |
| poll taxes | stop the black vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | Increase segregation of races |
| cooperatives | established by blacks to buy businesses |
| Madame C.J. Walker | female millionaire |
| carpetbaggers | Political influence of Black and White Northern citizens in the south |
| Compromise of 1877 | led to removal of federal troops in the south |