| A | B |
|---|
| freedman | men and women who were freed from slavery |
| Reconstruction | the physical, political, and social rebuilding of the South |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a government agency created to help freed slaves |
| amnesty | a government pardon |
| Thirteenth Amendment | banned slavery throughout the nation |
| Black Codes | laws that severely limited the rights of freed African Americans |
| Radical Republicans | strived to give freed peoples the right to vote |
| Fourteenth Amendment | defines a citizen as "all peoples born or naturalized in the United States" |
| Reconstruction Act | ratified in 1867 to throw out all state governments failing to accept the 14th Amendment |
| Impeach | to bring formal charges against a political figure |
| Fifteenth Amendment | forbids any state to deny any citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous servitude" |
