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| Freedman's Bureau | Agencey established by congress in 1865 to help poor people in the south. |
| Thaddeus Stevens | harsh critic of president johnson |
| Radical Republicans | members of congress who felt thatsouthern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted into the Union. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | Supreme court case that established the Seperate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities. |
| Civil Rights Bill of 1875 | Law allowing African Americans to sue private businesses for racial discrimination. |
| Reconstruction Acts | Laws that put the Southern States under military controland required them to draft new constitutions upholding the fourteenth Amendment. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement to settle the disputed presidental elevtion of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Repulican Rutherford B. Hayes as President in return for the removal of federal troops from the south. |
| Poll Tax | A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states. |
| Redeemers | Group of Southern Democrats that helped return the Democratic party to political power in the South during Reconstrution and tried to limit the civil rights of African Americans. |
| Fourteenth Amendments | Constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1866 giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American indians. |
| Sharecropping | System used on Southern farms agter after the Civil War in which sharecroppers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small share of the crops. |
| thriteenth Amendment | constitutional Amendments that outlawed slavery. |
