Reconstruction - the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union, Radical Republicans - congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South., Impeachment - Charges against a president approved by a majority of the House of Representatives, Andrew Johnson - became president after the death of Lincoln. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote., Poll tax - A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote, Literacy test - A test is given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote, Ku Klux Klan - White supremacy organization created during Reconstruction that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties such as voting, 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., Segregation - Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences, Freedman's Bureau - provided: food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and poor whites, Plessy v. Ferguson - a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal, Lincoln's 10% Plan - when 10% of voters in southern states pledged allegiance to U.S. it would become part of the union, Johnson's Reconstruction Plan - Required former Confederate states to ratify the 13th amendment before they could rejoin the union, Radical Reconstruction Plan - punish south, protect former slaves; US military occupation of South, Confederate military leaders needed pardon to hold office, protect Blacks right to vote,

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