| A | B |
|---|
| freedmen | former slaves |
| Thirteenth Amendment | ended slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | organization designed to help the newly free slaves get a new start |
| literacy test | required voters to prove they could read before they could vote |
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding the nation following the Civil War |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who went to the South after the war seeking profit |
| 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 |
| scalawag | Southerner who supported Reconstruction governments |
| 15th amendment | gave all males, including black, the right to vote |
| black codes | southern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks |
| Johnson's Reconstruction ideas | required southern states to denounce secession, pay debts, and ratify the 13th amendment |
| 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 |
| 14th amendment | said that any person who was born in the U.S. was a U.S. citizen |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | gave equal rights to freedmen |
| Election of 1876 | event that ended Reconstruction |
