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Carpetbaggers

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states

Sharecropping

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

15th Amendment

Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

14th Amendment

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Black Codes

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Ten Percent Plan

Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government afetr ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States

Freedmen's Bureau

Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War

Scalawags

Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction

13th Amendment

abolished slavery