1. Andrew Johnson President after Lincoln – didn’t carry out Lincoln’s plans for reconstructing the South

2. Radical Republicans A faction that favored strong federal action to protect the rights of blacks

3. Yankees A commonly used slang term for Northerners

4. 14 th Amendment Amendment that grants full citizenship to all African Americans

5. Ku Klux Klan Radical group that used terror tactics to keep African Americans from voting or running for office

6. Black Codes Laws to keep African Americans out of office

7. Sharecroppers Farmers who turn over part of what they grow to their landlords in return for using parts of the landlord’s land

8. Origins of Memorial Day Last Monday in May – Established to honor all servicemen who died in the Civil War. It now honors all wars

9. Reconstruction Government attempt to rebuild Southern society and governments

10. Freedmen’s Bureau Federal agency set up to help former slaves

11. Scalawag Southerners who cooperated fully with federal authorities

12. Carpetbagger Northerners who came South for personal gain

13. Amnesty Official pardon (forgiveness)

14. 13 th Amendment Amendment to the constitution that abolished (got rid of) slavery

15. 15 th Amendment Amendment to the constitution that states no man can be stopped from voting “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

16. Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the legality of segregation