| A | B |
|---|
| Jim Crow | laws against African Americans |
| freedmen | former slaves |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| emancipation | freedom from slavery |
| impeach | to bring charges against |
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who wanted to ensure great social change in the South |
| Ku Klux Klan | white supremacy organization |
| sharecropping | working for a share of the crop on land that does not belong to you |
| scalawag | southern Republicans |
| carpetbaggers | northerners in southern government |
| Black Codes | Southern laws to limit freedoms of freedmen |
| Redeemers | Southern Democrats who wanted to return the South to pre-war status |
| Reconstruction | 1865 to 1877 reuniting the nation |
| amnesty | official pardon for illegal acts |
| 13th Amendment | made slavery illegal |
| 14th Amendment | guaranteed citizenship and equal protection |
| Reconstruction Acts | divided South into 5 regions |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African-American men the right to vote. |
| poll tax | pay to vote |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "separate but equal" ruling |
