| A | B |
|---|
| compulsory | required |
| veto | to reject |
| impeach | to bring charges against a president |
| ratify | to approve |
| nullify | to cancel |
| black codes | laws passes during reconstruction in the South to limit the rights of freedmen |
| Radical Republicans | group that wanted a more stricter form of Reconstrution than that of President Johnson |
| carpetbaggers | names given to northerners who cam to the south for economic or political gain during Reconstruction |
| Scalawags | Southerner who supported the reconstruction efforts |
| ironclad oath | oath Southerners had to take to the US in order to get their voting rights back |
| Emancipation proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it freed all slaves in areas controlled by the US |
| Andrew Johnson | president of the US after lincoln, ran presidential reconstruction |
| Edmund Davis | Republican governor of Texas elected in 1869. Unpopular among many southerners in Texas, but supported by many Afridcan-Americans and Republicnas |
| Presidential Reconstruction | moderate form of reconstrcution set forth by Andrew Johnson |
| Congressional Reconstruction | period from 1866-1873 in Texas where Republicans controlled reconstruction and initiated programs to bring Texas back into the Union |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | granted former slaves citizenship |
| 15th Amendment | allowed all men in US to vote, no matter race, or ethnicity |
| Juneteenth | JUne 19. The day that the freedom of slaves in Texas was announced in 1865 |
| General Gordon Granger | The man who issued General orders #3, freeing the slaves in Texas |
| Freedmen's Bureau | group established to aid freedmen in finding jobs, shelter, food. Also responsible for starting schools for african-americans |
| freedmen | freed slaves |
