| A | B |
|---|
| poll tax | charge for voting |
| freedmen | former slaves |
| black codes | laws passed to control the freed slaves |
| jim crow laws | segregation of races in the South |
| reconstruction | rebuilding of the South |
| literacy test | test of the ablity to read and write |
| carpetbagger | northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to gain advantages |
| scalawag | white southerner who cooperated with the Radical Republicans |
| sharecropping | farmer who works the land and shares the profits with the land owner |
| impeach | to charge with misconduct |
| Tenure of Office Act | Johnson violated this |
| Edwin M. Stanton | Secretary of War |
| Andrew Johnson | President after the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assasinated Lincoln |
| Red Cloud | Native American leader |
