| A | B |
|---|
| carpetbaggers | name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or to pursue political careers during Reconstruction |
| Ku Klux Klan | the secret society that terrorized blacks and their white allies |
| amnesty | a pardon for a group of people |
| Poll tax | a personal tax to be paid before voting |
| Jim Crow laws | the laws passed by southern states that barred mixing of the races in most aspects of everyday life |
| Scalawags | name given to Southern whites who had opposed secession |
| Impeachment | the bringing of formal charges against a public official |
| sharecropper | a farmer who rents land and pays a share of each year’s crop as rent. |
