| A | B |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment to the US Constitution that abolished slavery. |
| 14th Amendment | n making anyone born in the US a US citizen. |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment to the US Constitution that guaranteed the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race. |
| Impeach | To bring formal charges against. |
| Black Codes | Laws passed in many southern states aimed at limiting the rights of African Americans (Freedmen). |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed in many southern states that limited the rights of African Americans (Freedmen). |
| Ku Klux Klan | A white supremicist organization that terrorized Freedmen, particularly in the south, after the Civil War. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A government organization aimed at helping Freedmen with the transition to citizenship in the US. |
| Sharecropping | An agricultural system where land is rented to farm on and repayment takes the form of a share of crops produced by the land instead of cash. |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who traveled to the south during Reconstruction to make money off of Reconstruction efforts. |
| Reconstruction | Period of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan for Reconstructing requiring an oath of loyalty from 10% of former confederate state populations |
| Freedman's Bureau | Organization set up by Radical Republicans to help African Americans after the Civil War |
| Veto | To reject a bill or proposed legislation |
| Debt | Money owed from one person or group to another |