| A | B |
|---|
| amnesty | a pardon for a crime, especially against the government |
| Jim Crow Laws | limited Blacks freedoms |
| 13th Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendment | all races equal under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Black men the right to vote |
| impeachment | the process of bringing charges against a government official |
| sharecropping | a system of farming in which farmers rent land from land owners and pay their rent with a share of the crop |
| carpetbagger | a person from the north that came to help with Southern government |
| scalawag | a white Southerner that took part in Reconstruction governments |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret organization that believed that blacks should not have the same rights as whites |
| segregation | the separation of people of different races |
| electoral commission | appointed to decide the election of 1876 |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice Pres. President during Reconstruction |
| Thaddeus Stevens | head of the Radial Republicans |
| Rutheford B. Hayes | won the election of 1876 ended Reconstruction |
| Booker T. Washington | teacher- founded Tuskegee Institute |
| W.E.B. DuBois | author founded NAACP |
| Samuel J. Tilden | ran against Hayes in the 1876 election |
| New south | factories, railroads, crops |
| radical | extreme |
