| A | B |
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| Reconstruction | a time period after the civil war when the United States began re-building the South |
| black codes | southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans |
| Civil Rights | rights belonging to all citizens |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| Lincoln/Johnson's Plan | wanted to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin union |
| Radical Republicans | wanted stronger action to punish former Confederate Leaders, they wanted to make the south give African Americans the right to vote |
| Under Johnson/ Lincoln's Plan | Black Codes became effective |
| Civil Rights Act | are rights that all citizens should have |
| 14th Amendment | All people born in the US are citizens |
| impeach | to accuse public official of a crime |
| segregation | separate people by race |
| carpetbagger | northerner who went south after the Civil War |
| scalawag | a name for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction |
| freedman | a person freed from slavery |
| sharecropping | farming someone else's land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent |
| poll tax | a tax paid before someone can vote |
