| A | B |
|---|
| scalawag | southerner who supported radical republican |
| carpetbagger | northerner attempting to help carry out Congress's Reconstruction who packed in cheap luggage |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th amendment | gave legal equality to all born in U.S. |
| 15th amendment | guaranteed right to vote regardless of race |
| black code | law intended to limit freedoms of Af. Am. |
| radical republican | wanted to give freedmen the right to vote |
| Rufus Bullock | Republican elected as governor under GA's new constitution |
| Benjamin Conley | GA's last Republican gov before 2002 |
| freedmen | former slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Gov't agency to help blacks adjust to freedom |
| Reconstruction | process of rebuilding and restoring the South |
| disfranchised | have vote taken away |
| franchise | the right to vote |
| enfranchise | give the right to vote |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret organization that terrorized Af. Am. to keep them from exercising their rights |
| James Smith | GA's democratic gov after reconstrcuction |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assassin |
| impeachment | charges broughtto seek removal from office |
| July 1870 | when GA was readmitted to Union |
