| A | B |
|---|
| Thirteenth Amendment | Officially abolished slavery. |
| Freedmen | Former slaves. |
| Freedmens Bureau | Established to provide food, shelter, education, health care, and employment for former slaves. |
| Reconstruction | A term applied to the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. |
| Radical Republicans | Those who wanted the South to pay dearly for the war. |
| Pocket Veto | Indirectly refusing to approve a bill by a president who holds the bill unsigned until after Congress adjourns. |
| Redeemers | Southern white democrats who worked to regain control of the state government after the Civil War. |
| Impeach | To bring charges of wrongdoing against an elected official while that person is still in office. |
| Carpetbaggers | Northern whites who moved south after the Civil War. |
| Scalawags | White southernerswho had not participated in the Confederacy. |
| Sharecropping | An agricultural system where a landless farmer provided the labor and the landowner provided land, housing, seeds, and tools. the farmer received one third to one half of the crop proceeds. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret, racist organization that used intimidation and violence to influence the behavior of the state's citizens, especially blacks. |
| White Supremacy | The belief that the white race is superior to all other races. |
| Black Codes | A series of laws enacted that were intended to restrict the freedom of blacks. |
