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Reconstruction

Period after the Civil War when the union was put back together

Radical republicans

Political leaders who wanted to impose harsh conditions on the states that seceded

Freedmen’s Bureau

Federal agency created to provide aid for freed slaves

Fourteenth amendment

Guaranteed citizenship to former slaves

Impeach

The process of removing a public official from office

fiftheenth amendment

Extended the right to vote to former male slaves

Carpetbagger

Negative term for northerners who moved south

Segregation

Forced separation of the races

Grandfather claus

Laws passed that banned people from voting unless their grandfather had voted in the past

Integration

Bringing together different groups or races

Literacy test

Reading and writing tests to prevent African Americans from voting

Share cropping

A farmer is responsible for a portion of that land for a shade of the crop

Poll tax

A tax charged to vote

Civil rights act of 1875

banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation

Jim Crow laws

Laws passed in southern states to enforce racial segregation

Compromise of 1877

Agreement in which Hayes became president in exchange for the removal of restrictions against southern states

Black codes

Laws that restricted African Americans rights

Reconstruction

The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.