| A | B |
|---|
| amnesty | A government pardon |
| John Wilkes Booth | Person who assassinatd Abraham Lincoln |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States |
| black codes | Laws used by southern states to conrol African Americans |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Elected President in 1868, corruption in his administration caused many people to lose faith in Republicans |
| carpetbaggers | Term used by Southern Democrats to describe northeners who moved to the South after the war to start businesses or pursue political careers |
| freedmen | Men and women who had been slaves |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Promised to end Reconstruction if he would receive contested electoral votes and the presidency in 1876 |
| grandfather clause | Provision allowing a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 |
| Jim Crow laws | Network of laws requiring segregation in almost every aspect of life: school, transportation, restaurants, etc. |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's successor who was impeached by the House of Representatives, but was not removed after trial in the Senate |
| 14th Amendment | Former male slaves were granted citizenship and equal protection under the law, regardless of race or color |
| literacy test | A test that showed that voters could read and explain part of the Constitution |
| 15th Amendment | African American males were given the right to vote |
| poll tax | A personal tax to be paid before being allowed to vote |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Granted citizenship to African Americans and guaranteed the civil rights of all people, except Native Americans |
| Radical Reconstruction | "Hard" policy of treating former Confederate states by imosing military rule, requiring new state constitutions, and allowing African Americans to vote |
| scalawags | Term for white southern Republicans who opposed secession |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | A law could require separate facilities for the races, if all facilities were equal -- "separate but equal" |
| segregation | Separation of people of different races |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Set the tone for Radical Reconstructin by imposing martial law on southern states that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment and required Confederate states to write new state constitutions |
| sharecropper | People who farmed rented land in return for a share of the crop profits |
| Hiram Revels | First African American Senator, he took the seat of Jefferson Davis (former President of the Confederate States of America) |
| Reconstruction | Time of brining the North and South together again after the Civil War |
