| A | B |
|---|
| reconstruction | the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union |
| amnesty | the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons |
| black codes | laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and woman, and allowing plantations owners to take advantage of African American workers |
| override | to reject or defeat something that has already been decided |
| impeach | to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office |
| scalawag | name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South |
| corruption | dishonest or illegal actions |
| integrate | to unite, or blend into a united whole |
| sharecropping | system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved South |
| poll tax | a tax a person must pay in order to vote |
| literacy test | a method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level |
| grandfather clause | a device that allowed persons to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began |
| segregation | the separation or isolation of a race, class or group |
| lynching | putting to death by the illegal actions of a mob |
