| President Lincoln's Plan 10% | Once ten percent of the voters in a state made these pledges, a new government could be formed. Once a new government was formed, a state could then be readmitted to the Union. |
| Laws that greatly limited the freedoms of African Americans | Black Codes |
| President Johnson’s Plan | Johnson wanted a moderate program for establishing new southern state governments. By the end of 1865, all of the southern states with the exception of Texas had been readmitted to the Union with new governments. |
| Reconstruction Amendment (13th) | Abolished slavery (1865) |
| Reconstruction Amendment (14th) | Guaranteed U.S. citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and granted them federal civil rights. (1868) |
| Reconstruction Amendment (15th) | Decreed that the right to vote could not be denied because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Women and Native Americans were still denied that right for approximately another 50 years. (1870) |
| Carpetbaggers | Someone from the northern US who went to the southern US after the Civil War in order to make money, especially in a dishonest way. |
| Scalawag | A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. |
| When people of different races, sexes, or religions are kept apart so that they live, work, or study separately. | Segregation |
| Farmer who uses someone else’s land, and gives the owner part of the crop in return | Sharecropper |
| Carpetbaggers | An insult used by the southerners to refer to some Republican office holders in the South were known as carpetbaggers. |
