Ten Percent Plan, Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction. Offered amnesty [forgiveness]]to the South, Freedmen's Bureau, agency created to assist freedmen and whites after the war by building schools and hospitals, Black codes, laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of freedmen, Scalawags, a slur referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies, Carpetbaggers, name given to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, Hiram Rhodes Revels, clergyman and teacher who became first black U.S. Senator, Radical Republicans, supported equality and aimed to punish the Southern states for the Civil War, Ku Klux Klan, used violence and intimidation to terrorize freedmen and maintain white supremacy, Sharecropping, system where poor farmers rented land from a landowner and paid with a share of their crops., Freedmen, Formerly enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War., Compromise of 1877, Agreement that made Rutherford B. Hayes president, but in return, federal troops were removed from the South, ending Reconstruction., Amendment, An official change or addition to the Constitution that becomes part of the nation’s highest law.

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