| A | B |
|---|
| freedmen | former slaves |
| Reconstruction | the process of bringing the Confederate states back into the union |
| black codes | laws limiting the rights and opportunities of African Americans |
| impeach | to accuse the president of wrongdoing and bring him to trial |
| carpetbaggers | northerners who came moved south after the Civil War often to take advantage of the situation |
| scalawags | white southern Republicans |
| corruption | the use of political office for illegal purposes |
| tenant farmers | people who rent the land on which they grow crops |
| sharecropping | a system where tenant farmers pay a part of their crop as rent, rather than using cash |
| poll tax | voting fee |
| segregation | the forced separation of races in public places |
| Jim Crow laws | the name given to segregation laws by southern whites |
