| A | B |
|---|
| Freedman's Bureau | help former slaves with food, medical and educational needs |
| 40 acres and a mule | idea for payment to former slaves for years of unpaid labor (it was reversed by Johnson) |
| The Black Codes | Laws meant to control former slaves |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Former slaves were full citizens with full civil rights |
| Military Reconstruction Act | divided the south into 5 districts that were controlled by the government |
| sharecropping | formers slaves paid rent on a parcel of land that they farmed |
| 15th Amendment | African-American men had the right to vote |
| Enforcement Acts | laws meant to combat terrorism against African-Americans; it is illegal to prevent another person from voting |
| Amnesty Act of 1872 | most former Confederates were allowed to vote again |
| Compromise of 1877 | Democrats allowed Hayes to become president and Hayes withdrew all federal troops from the South |
| Jim Crow laws | enforced segregation of blacks and whites in the South |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment |
| Reconstruction | bringing the southern states back into the Union |
