| A | B |
|---|
| Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency designed to help ex-slaves. |
| Freedman | Term for ex-slaves. |
| Reconstruction Acts | Congressional Laws designed to punish the South and give African Americans the right to vote. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Ended Reconstruction |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who came South as soldiers,missionaries, or political officials. |
| Impeach | An act by the House of Representatives to charge a federal official of a crime. |
| Black Codes | Regulated what freedmen could and could not do. |
| Ku Klux Klan | White terrorist group. |
| Scalawags | Southerners who accepted the rule of Northern officials. |
| Red Shirts | Democratic supporters of Wade Hampton. |
| Radical Republicans | Republicans who wanted to punish the South and give African Americans the right to vote. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Made African Americans equal citizens under the law. |
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding the South after the Civil War. |
| Union League | African American civic group with ties to the Republican Party. |
| Thirteenth Amendment | Ended slavery. |
