The Americans Chapter 12

Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans

Freedmen's Bureau

Fourteenth Amendment

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

Fifteenth Amendment

Carpetbagger

Hiram Revels

Sharecropping

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Rutherford B. Hayes

Reconstruction

Thaddeus Stevens

Wade-Davis Bill

black codes

scalawag

Samuel J. Tilden

Compromise of 1877