| Term | Definition |
|---|
| freedmen | freed slaves - men and women |
| reconstruction | the time period after the civil war when the south was rebuilding |
| wade-davis bill | Republican reconstruction plan |
| ten percent plan | Lincoln's reconstruction plan |
| amnesty | grant a pardon to (a group of people) |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Government agency to help former slaves & poor whites |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| black codes | laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen |
| 14th Amendment | Granted citizenship to anyone born in the US |
| Radical Reconstruction | Period after the Civil War when the Republicans had the majority in Congress |
| Reconstruction Act | Law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment |
| impeach | bring charges against an elected official |
| 15th Amendment | Can't be denied the right to vote because of race or color |
| Radical Republicans | Republicans who wanted to make drastic changes quickly |
| scalawag | white southern Republican, thought of as traitors |
| carpetbagger | Northerners who went south after the Civil War |
| conservatives | wanted as little change as possible |
| Ku Klux Klan | worked to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office, spread terror |
| sharecropper | rented and farmed a piece of land in return for a portion of the crop |
| poll tax | fee paid by voters |
| literacy test | had to read & explain a part of the Constitution to be able to vote |
| grandfather clause | could not vote if father or grandfather could not vote on 1/1/1867 |
| segregation | to separate according to race |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that separated public facilities |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | segregation legal if facilities are separate but equal |
| New South | expanded southern economy by using their own resources rather than relying on north |
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