| A | B |
|---|
| sharecropping | working someone else's land for part of the crop |
| grandfather clause | used to deny blacks the right to vote but to allow whites who had voted before 1867 or whose father or grandfather had the right to vote then |
| Jim Crow laws | restrictions passed in the South after Reconstruction to segregate the races |
| Solid South | a one-party system of Democratic rule |
| freedmen | former slaves |
| pocket veto | method by which the President kills a bill by not signing it within 10 days of congress adjourning |
| literacy test | test of a person's ability to read and write required to vote |
| poll tax | a charge for voting |
| scalawags | Southerners who participated in Reconstruction governments |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and went into politics |
| black codes | laws to govern the conduct of blacks after the Civil War |
