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| Ku Klux Klan | secret orginization that used terrorist tactics in attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. |
| Amnesty Act | returned the right to vote and the right to hold federal state offices to about 160,000 former Confederates. |
| redemption | the Southern Democrats' term for their return to power in the South in the 1870s. |
| Radical republicans | wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote. |
| reconstruction | the period of rebuilding that follwed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union. |
| Wade-Davis Bill | a bill, passed in 1864 and vetoed by Lincoln, that would of given Congress control of Reconstruction. |
| proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction | under this plan the govt. would pardon all Confederates-except those accused of crimes against prisoners of war and high-ranking Confederates- who would swear allegiance to the Union and promise to obey its laws. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | offered assistance, such as medical aid and education, to freed slaves and war refugees |
| black codes | discrimanatory laws that were enacted in many Southern states after the Civil War and that severly restricted African American's lives. |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | abolished govts. formed in the Confederate states, divided those states into five military districts, and set up requirements for readmission to the Union. |
| scalawags | white Southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War. |
| carpetbaggers | northerners who moved to the South after the war. |
| sharecropping | a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise. |
| tenant farming | a system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash. |
