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| Reconstruction | Program implemented by the Federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union. |
| Radical Republican | Congressmen who advocated full citizenship right for African Americans along with harsh Reconstruction policy towards the South. |
| Impeachment | Accusation against a public official of wrong doing in office. |
| Sharecropping | system in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a portion of the crop. |
| Black code | Laws that restricted African American's rights and opportunities. |
| 13th Amendment | 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the Civil War. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens. |
| Scalawag | Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War. |
| Carpet Bagger | Negative term for a nothern Republican who moved to the South after the Civil War. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups. |
| Redeemer | Term for white southern Democrats who returned to power in 1870. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement by which Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 presidential election and in exhange agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from the South. |
| Military Reconstruction Act | Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts with Union generals acting as governors. |
