| A | B |
|---|
| amnesty | pardon |
| Freedmen's Buriau | given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding after the war |
| pocket veto | when a president lets a session of Congress expire wihout signing a piece of legislation |
| freedmen | freed African Americans |
| Edwin M. Stanton | Secretary of War who agreed with congressional Republicans |
| Fifteenth Amendment | guaranteed African Americans the right to vote |
| black codes | laws that severly limited African Americans' rights in the South |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | granted citizenship to all persons born in the US except Native Americans |
| Tenure of Office Act | required Senate approval to remove any gov. official whose appointment required the Senat's consent |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South |
| Black Republicanism | what many Southerners claimed ruled the South |
| graft | gaining money illegally through politics |
| Enforcement Acts | passed by Congress to combat the violence in the South |
| scalawags | white Southerners who worked with the Republicans and supported Reconstruction |
| crop liens | merchants could take a farmer's crops to cover debts |
| tenant farmers | paid rent for the land they farmed |
| Horace Greeley | influential newspaper publisher |
| sharecroppers | paid a share of their crops for the land they farmed |
| redeem | to save |
