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| Freedmen's Bureau | organization created to help provide food, clothing, and jobs for blacks after the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | the time period after the Civil War where the South was rebuilt and readmitted to the Union |
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who thought the Lincoln'Johnson plan for restoring the Union was too easy on the South |
| Thirteenth Amendment | ended slavery in the United States |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Guaranteed citizenship and egual rights for black Americans |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Gave all men the right to vote |
| Segregation | the practice of keeping people or groups apart or separate, as a form of discrimination |
| Poll Tax | a tax placed on an individual as payment for the right to vote |
| Sharecropping | unfair labor contract forced on many freedmen and poor whites |
| Literacy Test | Tests administered at polling locations to determine if a voter was literate enough to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | said if your father or grandfather could vote before January 1, 1867 you could avoid taking a literacy test |
| Jim Crow | system of segregation in the post Civil War Era |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine that made segregation lawful |
| Abraham Lincoln | had a lenient plan for reconstruction but was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and unable to carry them out |
| Andrew Johnson | clashed with Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction and was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act |
| Ulysses S. Grant | served 2 terms as president but his administration was characterized by political scandal |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | his controversial election symbolized the end of the Reconstruction Era as he ordered the removal of federal troops from the South |
