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| 13th Amendment | Amendment to the US Constitution that abolished slavery. |
| 14th Amendment | Makes anyone born in the US a US citizen |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment to the US Constitution that guaranteed the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race. |
| Impeach | To bring formal charges against someone. |
| Poll Tax | A fee required in many southern states in order to vote. |
| Literacy Test | A test of reading and writing skills required in many southern states in order to vote. |
| Black Codes | Laws passed in many southern states aimed at limiting the rights of African Americans (Freedmen). |
| Jim Crow Laws | Used to enforce racial segregation or separation of races |
| Ku Klux Klan | A white supremicist organization that terrorized Freedmen, particularly in the south, after the Civil War. |
| Sharecropping | An agricultural system where land is rented to farm on and repayment takes the form of a share of crops produced by the land instead of cash. |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who traveled to the south during Reconstruction to make money off of Reconstruction efforts. |
| Reconstruction | Period of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan for Reconstructing requiring an oath of loyalty from 10% of former Confederate state populations |
| Freedman's Bureau | Organization set up by Radical Republicans to help African Americans after the Civil War |
| Amnesty | Policy of friendship that pardoned or forgave Confederate leaders |
| Radical Republicans | Fought to end slavery, punish Confederate leaders, and grant equal civil rights to Black Americans during Reconstruction |
