| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | Time after the Civil War; how to bring North and South back together |
| Lincoln's 10% Plan | easy on South; 10% of Southerners had to pledge to be loyal to the Union |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln was assassinated; unpopular with Congress and they impeached him |
| 13th amendment | abolished (banned, ended) slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | government tried to help former slaves; gave them food, clothing, education, and medical care |
| sharecroppers | Former slaves worked the land in exchange for food and a place to live; not much different than slavery |
| Black Codes | Laws passed to restrict the rights of freedmen; they couldn't hang out on the streets, marry people of the white race, and they could only work in the fields or with their hands |
| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship |
| Radical Reconstruction | fought to give African Americans their rights in Congress |
| Johnson's Impeachment | Radicals charged Johnson with crimes; he was found innocent |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Beat Johnson to become next President in 1868 |
| The 15th Amendment | Gave African Americans the right to vote |
| Scalawags | White Southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction; fellow Southern whites thought they were traitors |
| Carpetbaggers | People from North who went South after Reconstruction; some helpful, some to take advantage of them |
| Ku Klux Klan | terror group who used violence to scare African Americans from exercising their rights |
| End of Reconstruction | life pretty much went back to the way it was before the Civil War |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | secretly agreed to end Reconstruction; elected President after Grant |
| Segregation | separate people by race |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that separated people by race in the South |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | said it was OK to keep the races segregated |
