- amnesty: to offer a group pardon
- black codes: blacks got to sue, be sued, marry[own race], testify in court
- carpetbagger: northerners who came south to assist in radical reconstruction and brought there luggage in pieces of carpets
- edwin stanton: linconlns holdover secretary of war that refused to leave after johnson removed him from office
- fifteenth amendment: gave blacks ability to vote
- fourteenth amendment: gave blacks citizenship
- freedman: slaves no longer
- freedmans bureau: first ever relief agency
- grant: president that was after andrew johnson
- hayes: president after grant
- ku klux klan: group to frighten blacks and whites sympathetic to black interest in order to keep blacks away from the polls
- radical reconstruction: disagreed with the 10% plan and thought the south was being to kindly
- reconstruction act: the following the civil war
- scalawag: white southerners who supported radical reconstruction
- sharecropping: where people pay to use other peoples land
- south north: blank needed more help than blank
- tenure of office act: made it illegal to remove any presidential appointments approved by the senate unless the senate approves
- thaddeus stevens: led radical republicans
- thirteenth amendment: freed all slaves
- william seward: johnsons talented secretary of state
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