| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | rebuilding the South |
| pocket veto | let the session of Congress expire without signing a bill |
| black codes | laws limiting the rights of African Americans in the South |
| trade unions | organization for workers with special skills |
| industrial unions | organization that united craft workers and laborers |
| tenant farmer | farming rented land |
| impeach | bringing charges against a public official with the intention to remove them from office |
| scalawags | southerners that supported Repubicans and Reconstruction |
| vigilance committees | self-appointed volunteers to enforce laws |
| carpetbagger | notherners who came South |
| sharecropper | worked the land and received part of the crop |
| mavericks | unbranded cattle |
| scabs | replacement workers |
| deflation | rise in the value of money |
| open range | vast areas of grasslands owned by the government |
| homestead | tract of public land available for settlement |
| bonanza farms | large farms that yielded big profits |
| assimilation | be absorbed into a culture |
| Gross National Product | total value of goods and services provided by a country |
| entrepreneurs | people who risked their capital in organizing and running a business |
| lockouts | factory shut downs |
| pools | agreement to maintain prices on products at a certain amount |
| monopoly | control over an entire market |
