| A | B |
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| Reconstruction | the time after the Civil War for rebuilding the South’s economy and reconstructing the nation |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | an agency set up by President Lincoln and Congress to assist poor blacks and whites |
| Black Codes | legislation imposed during Reconstruction that fi rst gave freedmen certain rights and then took away |
| Radical Republicans | northerners who pushed most for civil rights for freedmen |
| Impeach | to bring charges against a public official who is still in offi ce |
| Carpetbaggers | the name given by southern whites to northerners who came south after the Civil War |
| Scalawags | the name given to southern whites who cooperated with blacks and Republicans |
| Propaganda | allegations spread deliberately to further a cause or damage an opposing cause |
| Discrimination | prejudiced attitude toward or treatment of a group |
| Amnesty | pardon granted to a large group of individuals |
| Depression | a serious downturn in the economy |
| Sharecrop system | an agricultural system in which a landowner would divide his property into familysized farms |
| Tenant farmer | a farmer who worked someone else’s property |
| Crop-lien system | a system in which the country store provided goods to a landowner and sharecropper on credit |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | a secret racist organization that used intimidation and violence to infl uence the behavior of citizens |
| Red Shirt campaign | a campaign in the governor’s election of 1876 designed to intimidate Republican voters |
