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| Reconstruction | the time period after the Civil War when the U.S. began to rebuild the South |
| black codes | a series of southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans |
| civil rights | rights belonging to all citizens |
| Andrew Johnson | the president after Lincoln; Republicans tried to remove him from office because he opposed the Reconstruction Acts & allowing blacks to vote |
| Ku Klux Klan | group that beat or hanged African Americans and burned their homes & churches |
| Civil Rights Act | said African Americans should have the same legal rights as white Americans |
| impeach | to accuse a high public official (like the president) of a crime |
| segregation | separation of people by race |
| carpetbagger | name for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War |
| scalawag | a name for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction government |
| freedman | a person freed from slavery |
| sharecropping | farming someone else's land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent |
| poll tax | a tax paid before someone can vote |
| transcontinental | across a continent |
| prairie | a large area of level or slightly rolling land |
| homesteader | a person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862 |
| reservation | public land set aside by the government for the use of a particular group of people |
| tradition | the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation to another |
| prospector | a person who searches for gold, silver, or other valuable minerals |
| boom town | a camp that grows into a town almost overnight |
