| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | time of rebuilding |
| Freedmen's Bureau | set up by the United States government to help former slaves |
| black codes | a special set of laws passed in 1865 and 1866 to try to bring back some of the conditions of slavery |
| military rule | a time when the U. S. Congress sent the Union army back to Alabama to oversee the government |
| scalawags | a name for whites who worked with the Union--many of which had been unionists |
| carpetbaggers | northeners who moved to Alabama after the Civil War |
| Ku Klux Klan | an organization of white men who tried to scare blacks away from voting places |
| segregation | when whites and blacks were kept separate in public places |
| racial discrimination | the act of treating another person differently because of his or her skin color |
| poll tax | a payment required from those who voted |
