| A | B |
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| Nathan Bedford Forest | Founder of the Ku Klux Klan |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's vice-president who became president in 1865. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | President in 1876 because of the Corrupt Bargain |
| Samuel J. Tilden | Won the most popular votes in 1876 Election but lost. |
| Carpetbagger | Northerner who traveled to the South after the Civil War and bought up property cheaply. |
| Scalawag | Southerner who cooperated with the Union rebuilding of the South. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Elected president in 1868 and 1872. Enforced Reconstruction in the South. |
| Edwin Stanton | Secretary of War placed in charge of Reconstruction by Congress. Later, Johnson tried to fire him. |
| Tenure of Office Act | Act that prohibited the President of the U.S. from firing officials without consent of Congress. |
| Impeach | To bring charges against a public official. |
| Edmond Ross | Senator from Kansas who voted against impeachment of Andrew Johnson. |
| Doubtful Republcians | Republicans who doubted the guilt of Andrew Johnson concerning wrongdoing. |
| Sharecropper | Former slave who worked land of plantations owners in exchange for a share of the crop. |
| Reconstruction | Period from 1865-1877 in which the South was rebuilt & African-Americans gained civil rights. |
| Lynch | To execute a person without legal proceedings. |
| U.S. Senate | This group acts as a jury when the President is on trial. |
| U.S. House of Representatives | The group of people who bring impeachment charges against the president. |
| Chief Justice of Supreme Court | This person acts as a judge during the impeachment trial of the President of the U.S. |
| black codes | Laws passed by Southerners to limit freedom of former slaves. |
| Pulaski, Tennessee | Place where Ku Klux Klan started. |
