| A | B |
|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | president assassinated in 1865 |
| Radical Republicans | republicans who wanted to reconstruct the country based on equal rights for all |
| Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner | leader of radical republicans who criticized Johnson's reconstruction plan |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | stated that blacks were entitled to equal benefit of all laws |
| Thirteenth Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | provided former slaves and poor whites with food, clothing, education, and medical care |
| black codes | laws intended to restrict the freedom of former slaves |
| civil rights | rights of citizenship such as voting or serving on a jury |
| Fourteenth Amendment | provided equal protection of the laws |
| Edwin Stanton | Secretary of War who was fired by President Johnson |
| Congressional Reconstruction | plan to rebuild the U.S. proposed by Congress |
| Fifteenth Amendment | gave the right to vote to all men |
| segregation | forced seperation of races in public places |
| tenant farming | system where farmers rent land from land owners |
| sharecropping | farmers who paid a part of their crop for rent of their land |
| debt peonage | having to work for a person you owe money to |
| white supremacy | belief that the white race is superior to all others |
| amnesty | a general pardon |
| poll tax | a fee charged for voting |
| literary test | tests given to keep blacks from voting |
| override | 2/3 majority in Congress to make a law over a president's veto |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws designed to enforce segregation in the South |
| grandfather clause | allowed only voters who ancestors had voted before 1867 to vote |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | established the seperate but equal doctrine |
| lynched | illegal killing by hanging |
