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| Reconstruction | (1865-1877)the period following the Civil War during which the U.S.government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states |
| Ten Percent Plan | President Abrahan Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction;once 10 percent of voters in a former Confederate state took a U.S.loyalty oath,they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union |
| Thirteenth Amendment | (1865)a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | an agency established by Congress in 1856 to help poor people throughout the South |
| Andrew Jackson | Lincoln's Vice President was sworn into office quickly |
| Black Codes | laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans |
| Radical Republicans | members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans |
| Fourteenth Amendment | (1866)a constitutional amendment given full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States,except for American Indians |
| Reconstruction | (1865-1877)the period following the Civil War during which the U.S.government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states |
| impeachment | the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official |
| Fifteenth Amendment | (1870) a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote |
| Hiram Revels | African American politicians was born free in North Carolina |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights |
| Compromise of 1877 | an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election in 1876 Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutterford B.Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South |
| poll tax | a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote |
| segregation | the forced separation of people of different races in public places |
| Jim Crow laws | a law that enforced segregation in the southern states |
| Plessy v.Ferguson | (1896)U.S.Supreme Court case that established the"separate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities |
| sharecropping | a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops |
