Definitions from chapter 17 of the "Out of Many" AP United States History textbook
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| 928956544 | radical republicans | a shifting group of Republican congressmen, usually a substantial minority, who favored the abolition of slavery from the beginning of the Civil War and later advocated harsh treatment of the defeated South | 0 | |
| 928956545 | special field order 15 | order by General William T. Sherman in January 1865 to set aside abandoned land along the southern Atlantic coast for forty-acre grants to freed men; rescinded by President Andrew Johnson later that year | 1 | |
| 928956546 | freedmen's bureau | agency established by Congress in March 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services, advice, and protection to former slaves and destitute whites; lasted seven years | 2 | |
| 928956547 | black codes | laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the Civil War | 3 | |
| 928956548 | civil rights act | 1866 act that gave full citizenship to African Americans | 4 | |
| 928956549 | congressional reconstruction | name given to the period 1867-1870 when the Republican-dominated Congress controlled the Reconstruction-era policy | 5 | |
| 928956550 | first reconstruction act | 1877 act that divided the South into five military districts subject to martial law | 6 | |
| 928956551 | tenure of office act | act stipulating that any officeholder appointed by the president with the Senate's advice and consent could not be removed until the Senate had approved a successor | 7 | |
| 928956552 | ku klux klan | perhaps the most prominent of the vigilante groups that terrorized black people in the South during the Reconstruction era, founded by the Confederate veterans in 1866 | 8 | |
| 928956553 | fifteenth amendment | passed by Congress in 1869, guaranteed the right of American men to vote, regardless of race | 9 | |
| 928956554 | sharecropping | labor system that evolved during and after Reconstruction whereby landowners furnished laborers with a house, farm animals, and tools and advanced credit in exchange for a share of the laborers' crop | 10 | |
| 928956555 | union league | republican party organizations in northern cities that became an important organizing device among freedmen in southern cities after 1865 | 11 | |
| 928956556 | carpetbaggers | northern transplants to the South, many of whom were Union soldiers who stayed in the South after the war | 12 | |
| 928956557 | scalawags | southern whites, mainly small landowning farmers and well-off merchants and planters, who supported the southern Republican Party during Reconstruction | 13 | |
| 928956558 | slaughterhouse cases | group of cases resulting in one sweeping decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873 that contradicted the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment by decreeing that most citizenship rights remained under state, not federal, control | 14 | |
| 928956559 | liberal republicans | disaffected republicans that emphasized the doctrines of classical economics | 15 | |
| 928956560 | compromise of 1877 | the congressional settling of the 1876 election that installed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in teh White House and gave Democrats control of all state governments in the South | 16 | |
| 928956561 | war democrats | those from the north and the border states who broke with the Democratic Party and supported Abraham Lincoln's military policies during the Civil War | 17 |
