| A | B |
|---|
| freedmen | former slaves |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Organization designed to help newly free slaves |
| literacy test | Required voters to prove they could read before voting |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Proposed that 50% of former confederates pledge loyalty before readmitted to Union |
| Reconstruction | Period of rebuilding the nation following the Civil War |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who went to the South after the war seeking profit |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Court case that est. "Separate but equal" principle causing racial segregation |
| poll tax | Resulted in people having to pay a fee to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that enforced segregation |
| scalawag | Southerner who supported Reconstruction governments |
| 15th Amendment | Gave all male citizens, including black, the right to vote |
| Black Codes | Southern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks |
| Johnson's Reconstruction idea | Required southern states to denounce secession, pay debts, and ratify 13th Amendment |
| sharecropper | Farmer who works land owned by paying part of his harvest |
| grandfather clause | Allowed whites to vote who could not pass literacy test or pay a poll tax |
| Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan | Divided 10 staes into militarydistricts, and require ratify 14th & 15th Amend. |
| 14th Amendment | Said any person who was born in the U.S. ia a citizen and has equal protection |
| 13th Amendment | Banned slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | Powerful civil rights and voting advocate for Blacks |
