Carpetbagger - A northerner who went to the South to gain political advantage from the disorganized situation in southern states, Scalawag - Derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners, Jim Crow Laws - Designed to enforce segregation of African Americans from whites in most Southern states after Reconstruction, Radical Republicans - Believed the South should be punished, 13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery, 14th Amendment - Citizenship and Equal Rights, 15th Amendment - African American Men the right to vote (suffrage), Black Codes - Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves in the Southern states, Compromise of 1877 - Ended Reconstruction by removing the military from the South and gave other Southern favors in exchange for votes for Hayes, Plessy V. Ferguson - "Separate but equal" court case which created segregation in the United States, Andrew Johnson - First president to get impeached in American history, Ulysses S. Grant - Former general whose presidency contained corruption and scandal, 10% Plan - Lincoln's idea to be lenient on the South to bring the country back together, Ku Klux Klan - Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized African Americans during and after Reconstruction, Reconstruction - 1865-1877, Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union, Freedman's Bureau - Government agency set up to help ex slaves and poor whites adjust to live after the Civil War. Provided education, jobs, and land to ex slaves, Reconstruction Act - Sent the military down to the Southern states to enforce the 13,14,15th Amendments (military districts), Sharecropping - "new slavery" a system to keep former slaves in debt so they would have to continuously work on the landowner's land, Dawes Act - U.S. government was allowed to break up Native American Reservation Lands and give it to Americans...nearly collapsed the Native American population in the U.S., Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American senator in U.S. history in 1870 (in Mississippi),

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