| A | B |
|---|
| 13th Amendment | freed the slaves |
| 14th Amendment | made blacks citizens |
| 15th Amendment | gave blacks the right to vote |
| Reconstruction | period of social, economic, physical, and political rebuilding of the South |
| Radical Reconstruction | period of rebuilding that was controlled by Radical Republicans |
| Presidential Reconstruction | period of rebuilding that was lenient on Southern states |
| Black Codes | laws that only blacks had to follow after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | people who believed blacks should have rights and that southern states should be treated harshly |
| Carpetbagger | northern Republican that moved to south after the Civil War |
| Scalawag | white Southern republican |
| Solid South | tendence of white southerners to vote for the Dem. Party after the Civil War |
| Compromise of 1877 | ended Reconstruction because troops were withdrawn |
| Sharecropping | system of farming that kept free blacks in virtual slavery |
| Poll Taxes | fees that had to be paid before a person could vote |
| Literacy Test | reading/writing test that a person had to pass to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | exempted poor/illiterate whites from poll tax and literacy test |
| Ku Klux Klan | white supremacy group that used scare tactics to keep blacks from voting |
| Segregation | separation of races |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that enforced segregation |
