| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | 1865-1877 process the U.S government used to readmit the Confederacy back into the Union |
| Freedman's Bureau | federal agency set up to help former slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president who became President after Lincoln's assassination |
| Black Codes | laws passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of slaves |
| Sharecropping | system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised |
| Freedman's School | set up to educate newly freed African Americans |
| Ku Klux Klan | group formed by ex Confederate soldiers to restore democratic control |
| scalawags | poor southern farmers that went along with Reconstruction |
| carpetbaggers | white northerners who rushed to the South at the end of the war |
| Hiram Rhodes Revels | first African American elected to Congress, (Senate) |
| Dawes Act | 1887, distributed reservation land to individual owners |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | offered 160 acres of free land in the west to anyone who agreed to live on it for five years |
| Morrill Act | set land aside for colleges or institutions of higher learning |
| Compromise of 1877 | made by 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats, Hayes would become President (Republican) and all federal troops removed from South |
| 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments | free, citizens, vote, guaranteed civil rights to African Americans |
