| A | B |
|---|
| Freedmen's Bureau | Distributed food, established schools, provided land settlements. |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Pennsylvania Congressman; Radical Republican |
| Black Codes | Laws designed to re-establish planter control over black workers. |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Created 5 military districts in the South, led by military commanders |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern whites that take over power in the South. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Declared blacks to be citizens and empowered the federal government to protect them. |
| Tenure of Office Act of 1867 | Forbade the president from removing officials without consent of the Senate. |
| Sharecroppers | Often got into debt owing the plantation owner crops for use of their land. |
| Tenant Farmers | Rented the land to farm on, but made the money off of the crops sold. |
| Scalawags | Southern whites that support the Republican Party. |
