| A | B |
|---|
| Black Codes | Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen. |
| Radical | Someone who wants to make drastic changes. |
| 14th Amendment | Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States. |
| 13th Amendment | Banned Slavery |
| 15th Amendment | Gave black men over the age of 21 the right to vote. |
| Reconstruction Act | Threw out southern state governments that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment. The start of Radical Reconstruction. |
| Impeach | To bring formal charges of wrongdoing against an elected official. |
| Scalawags | term for a white southerner who helped the Republicans. |
| Carpetbaggers | Fortune hunters who moved south to profit during the south's misery.. |
| Conservatives | Want as little change as possible. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Original goal was to keep blacks and white republicans out of office. |
| Sharecroppers | Farmed owner's land and were provided a share of the crops at the end of the growing season. |
| Poll Tax | Required voters to pay a fee each time they voted. |
| Literacy Test | Required voters to read and explain a section of the constitution. |
| Grandfather Clauses | If a voters father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on 1/1/1867, the voter did not have to take the literacy test. |
| Segregation | Separating people of different races in public palces. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Case thet made segregation constitutional as long as facilities were equal.. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Official laws that seperated the races in public places. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Lost the popular vote in the 1876 presidential election but was given disputed electoral votes in several southern states. He made a secret agreement to end reconstruction. |
| Blnche K. Bruce | First African American to serve a full term in the Senate. |
| Hiram Revels | Became the nation's first black senator in 1870. |
| Ten Percent Plan | President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction. The most lenient on the South. |
| Wade-Davis Bill | The reconstruction plan passed by congress. Was the most punishing of the reconstruction plans. |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln was assassinated. Many republicans felt he was too easy on the south. |
