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| 6636984719 | black codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War Any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War. | 0 | |
| 6636984720 | black reconstruction | Blacks could vote and had rights, but black codes kept them virtually enslaved. They did get more political power, however. | 1 | |
| 6636984721 | John Wilkes Booth | ..., was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | 2 | |
| 6636984722 | carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts. | 3 | |
| 6636984724 | compromise of 1877 | -Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president | 4 | |
| 6636984726 | Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865. | 5 | |
| 6636984730 | 13th Amendment | Abolish slavery | 6 | |
| 6636984731 | 14th Amendment | 1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5 Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate (reject) confederate debts | 7 | |
| 6636984732 | 15th amendment | Amendment that extended suffrage to all races. | 8 | |
| 6636984734 | Freedmen's Bureau | Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War | 9 | |
| 6636984735 | impeachment | A formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official, famously used against Andrew Johnson after he disobeyed the Tenure of Office Act. | 10 | |
| 6636984736 | Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States | 11 | |
| 6636984737 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. | 12 | |
| 6636984738 | Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 | 1867; divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in convention to write new state constitutions | 13 | |
| 6636984739 | radical republicans | After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. | 14 | |
| 6636984741 | sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. You usually go into debt and cant come out. | 15 | |
| 6636984743 | Thaddeus Stevens | A Radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress. | 16 | |
| 6636984744 | Charles Sumner | A leader of the Radical republicans along with Thaddeus Stevens. He was from Massachusetts and was in the senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote | 17 |
