A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Chapter 16 Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877
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| 1499740626 | Carpetbaggers | Derogatory nickname southerners gave to northerners who moved south after the Civil War, perceiving them as greedy opportunists who hoped to cash in on the South's plight. | 1 | |
| 1499740627 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Designed to desegregate public places but lacked enforcement provisions. | 2 | |
| 1499740628 | congressional Reconstruction | The process by which the Republican controlled Congress sought to make the Reconstruction of the ex-Confederate states longer, harsher, and under congressional control. | 3 | |
| 1499740629 | Enforcement Acts | Laws that sought to protect black voters and made violations of civil and political rights a federal offense and sought to end Ku Klux Klan violence. | 4 | |
| 1499740630 | Fifteenth Amendment | Prohibited states from denying the vote to any citizen on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." | 5 | |
| 1499740631 | Fourteenth Amendment | Defined U.S. citizens as anyone born or naturalized in the United States, barred states from interfering with citizens' constitutional rights, and stated for first time that voters would be male. | 6 | |
| 1499740632 | Freedmen's Bureau | Created by Congress in March 1865, this agency had responsibility for the relief, education, and employment of former slaves as well as white refugees. | 7 | |
| 1499740633 | Impeachment | Process to remove a president from office; attempted but failed in the case of Andrew Johnson. | 8 | |
| 1499740634 | Ku Klux Klan | A terrorist organization established by six Confederate war veterans that sought to reestablish white supremacy in the South, suppress black voting, and topple Reconstruction governments. | 9 | |
| 1499740635 | scalawag | Term used by conservative southerners to describe other white southerners who were perceived as aiding or benefiting from Reconstruction. | 10 | |
| 1499740636 | Sharecropping | A system where landowners and former slaves managed a new arrangement, with laborers paying with a portion of their crops for the right to work their own land, thereby usually ending up in permanent debt. | 11 | |
| 1499740637 | Thirteenth Amendment | The Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery; passed by Congress in 1865. | 12 |
