| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | Re-admiting the Confederate States to the Union |
| Compromise | In 1877; Hayes become President |
| Johnson | President after Lincoln was killed |
| Radical Republicans | This group wanted Congress to take over Reconstruction |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency that helped the newly freed slaves |
| Black Codes | Laws that limited the freedom of African Americans |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Gave citizenship to all born in the U.S. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Gave black men the right to vote |
| Thirteenth Amendment | Ended slavery in the United States |
| Grant | 18th President |
| Impeach | accused of improper conduct |
| sharecropping | rent land; split crop |
| Ku Klux Klan | Keep former slaves powerless |
| Panic | In 1873; closed banks |
| Freedmen | Free former slaves |
