| A | B |
| Radical Republicans | wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders |
| Lincoln | 10% Plan |
| Johnson | Majority must swear allegiance |
| Black Codes | discriminatory laws in South |
| Freedman's Bureau | helped reunite African American families |
| 13th Amendment | freed all slaves |
| 14th Amendment | gave citizenship to those born or naturalized in U.S. |
| 15th Amendment | voting rights |
| Amnesty | an official power to pardon |
| Tenure of Office Act | President cannot remove cabinet members without consent of Congress |
| Scalawags | Southerners who supported Radical Republicans |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved South |
| KuKluxKlan | secret organization. white supremacy |
| Election of 1876 | former slave support |
| Compromise of 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President |
| Lincoln's assassin | John Wilkes Booth |
| Where Lincoln was shot | Ford's Theatre |
| Slaughterhouse and Reese | hurt civil rights of African Americans |
| sharecropping | landowner gets portion of crop in payment |
| tenant farming | rent land for cash payment |
| Jim Crow Laws | a series of segregation laws |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | separate but equal facilities are legal |
| Panic of 1873 | triggered a 5 year depression |
| Redemption | return of Democratic (white) power to South |
| Hiram Revels | first African American Senator |
| life after slavery | slaves still discriminated against |
| impeach | to formally charge a person with misconduct |
| Specie Resumption Act of 1875 | Put the U.S. back on gold standard |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican candidate 1876 |
| Samuel J. Tilden | Democrat candidate 1876 |
| Debt Peonage | bound laborers into slavery to pay off debt |
| Chinese exclusion Act | banned entry of Chinese except a limited few |
| Literacy Test | test required in order to vote |
| Poll Tax | Tax required in order to vote |
| Grandfafther Clause | if grandfather could vote, you could too |
| Racial etiquette | rules and customs regulation relationships betwen blacks and whites |
| First state to secede | South Carolina |
| KKK founded here | Pulaski, TN |
| Klan was associated with this gorup | S0uthern Democrats |
| Daniel Uppom | fought against Klan in Arkansas |
| swallow the dog | for a Confederate to swear allegiance to the Union |
| Bill Brownlow | Radical Republican in TN, Governor, publicist |
| "Pocket vetoed" by Lincoln | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Congressional leader for the Radical Republicans |