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| amnesty | the act of granting a pardon to a large group of people |
| Radical Republicans | resisted Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction-they wanted to prevent Confederate leaders from returning to power, the Republican Party to become a powerful institution in South, & African Americans to have political equality by guaranteeing their right to vote |
| impeach | to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office("high crimes and misdemeanors" |
| Fourteenth Amendment | granted citizenship to all person born or naturalized in US, declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and no state could deny any person equal protection of the laws |
| Civil Rights Act | passed by Congress to override the black codes-granted citizenship to all persons born in the US except Native Americans, allowed African Americans to own property & treated equally in court, federal government had power to sue that violated these rights |
| graft | the acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician |
| carpetbagger | name given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans |
| scalawag | name given to Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South |
| Ku Klux Klan | started in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers to drive Union troops & carpetbaggers from the South and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party |
| furnishing merchant | merchant who provides sharecroppers with supplies on credit at high interest rates |
| tenant farmer | farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops |
| crop lien | obligation placed on a farmer to repay a debt with crops |
| Reconstruction | the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War |
| Fifteenth Amendment | declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" |
| Thaddeus Stevens | a Radical Republican Representative from Pennsylvania that wanted to revolutionize the South |
