| A | B |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Segregation is legal |
| poll tax | tax people paid in order to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | kept African Americans & white apart |
| literacy | ability to read & write |
| 15th Amendment | right to vote |
| impeach | to charge a government leader with a crime |
| 2/3 | the # of senators needed to remove a president |
| 14th Amendment | Equal Rights Amendment |
| Andrew Johnson | president after Abe Lincoln |
| Freedman's Bureau | helped African Americans & poor whites |
| reconstruction | plan to rebuild the South |
| 13th Amendment | freed the slaves |