| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | official rebuilding by US after Civil War |
| Freedmen's Bureau | US gov't. agency to help with former slaves' lives |
| scalawags | Southern whites who agreed with Reconstruction |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization which formed after the War to "keep the blacks in their place" |
| Civil Rights Act | Congressional act of 1866 which declared all natural-born Americans citizens |
| amnesty | official government pardon |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who went south after the War to try and take economic advantage of the South |
| Jim Crow | series of Southern laws to enforce segregation |
| disenfranchise | remove the right to vote |
| impeach | to charge and attempt to remove from office |
| mandate | official order or view |
| segregation | separate formally by race |
| sharecropper | people who worked owners' lands and got crops in return |
| tenant farmer | farming rented land, paying the rent in crops |
| Compromise of 1877 | settled the 1876 election and ended Radical Reconstruction |
| Solid South | voting bloc for Democrats in South for decades due to harshness of Reconstruction |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's successor and first impeached President |
| Booker T Washington | founder of Tuskegee Institute |
| Ulysses S Grant | former Union general and 18th President who had lots of scandal during his terms |
| Abraham Lincoln | asassinated 16th President who believed in an easy Reconstruction for the South |
