| A | B |
|---|
| Boss Tweed | a businessman from New York who controlled immigrants voting |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | make blacks citizens and offered them equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | gave blacks the right to vote |
| Andrew Johnson | first president to be impeached |
| Plessy v Ferguson | said that "separate but equal" facilities are legal |
| KKK | organized by former Confederate leaders and southern clergy |
| Carpetbagger | individual who came from the North to help blacks have political power in the South |
| Sharecropper | person who worked on a farm and shared a portion of the profits with the landowner |
| poll tax | name for the payment imposed as a qualification for voting |
| truck farming | rapid movement of fresh fruits and vegetables from the South using refrigerated cars |
| Credit Mobilier Scandal | Congress had been given or cheaply sold stocks to this R.R. company |
| Grandfather Clause | excluded blacks fromt the polls, while alloweing poor, illiterate white to vote |
| Tuskegee Institute | Founded by Booker T. Washington |
| NAACP | founded by W.E.B. DuBois |
| Jim Crow laws | segregation of railroad cars, drinking fountains, waiting rooms, etc. |
| Black Codes | intended to limit the freedom of newly freed blacks and to keep the whites of the South in power |
| U.S. Grant | President of the United States who was surrounded by scandals while in office |
| New York Legislature | Fisk and Gould brought cash in a trunk with the intent to bribe officials |
| Impeachment of 1868 | Johnson found not guilty |
