| A | B |
|---|
| cash crop | farm crop raised to be sold for money |
| impeach | formally charge a public official of misconduct in office |
| Reconstruction | the rebuiding of the South after the Civil War |
| override | to overturn or defeat a veto of the president |
| commission | a group of persons directed to perform a duty |
| poll tax | a amount of money a person had to pay to vote |
| literacy test | to be required to read before you could vote |
| scalawags | name for Southern whites who supported the Republican Reconstruction of the South |
| freedman | a person freed from slavery |
| integrate | to end separation of races and bring together |
| segregation | separate or isolate races |
| sharecropping | farming whererent is paid with a share of the crops |
| amnesty | granting of a pardon/Confederate officers |
| corruption | dishonest or illegal actions |
| grandfather clause | bypasses poll tax and literacy test to allow people to vote |
| reconciliation | to come together again after a dispute |
| carpetbaggers | Northern whites who moved South to help with Reconstruction |
| lychings | put to death by hanging -usually by an illegal mob |
| black codes | laws passed to control freedmen after the Civil War |
