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- Aberham Lincoln
- offered south a compromise to make it easy for southern states to rejoin the union made 10% plan
- Amnesty
- group of pardon
- freedman
- enslaved people who had been freed by the war
- John Wilkes Booth
- assinated Abe
- Andrew Jonson
- proposed a realtively lenient plan of Reconstruction followed Lincoln's example in putting his plan into effect
- black codes
- new laws used by southern states to control african americans
- Hiram Revles
- served in senate in house of Reps
- Blanche Bruce
- also served in senate in the house of rep
- scalawag
- southern whites who opposed secssion
- carpetbagger
- a name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start business or perseu political life
- impeachment
- bringing of formal charges against a public office
- 13th amendment
- ended slavery and and forced labor gave congress power to make laws to enforce its terms
- 14th amendment
- most complex, turned black people into citizens, forced = treats and whites for all
- poll tax
- personal tax to be paid before voting
- Literacy test
- a test to see if a person can read or write
- Grandfather clause
- a provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if is grandfather or father had been eligible to vote on Jan 1st 1867
- Segregation
- enforced separation of races called Jim crow laws barred the mixing of races in every aspect
- sharecropping
- a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it in exchange for a share of the value of the crop