Radical Republican- After the 1860 elections the Radical Republicans became a powerful force in Congress. Several were elected as chairman of important committees.

Wade-Davis bill- By Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis ... The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath

Freedman’s Bureau- Freedmen's Bureau is a U.S. agency established during Reconstruction to help freed slaves in their transition to freedom

Andrew Johnson- Andrew Johnson. With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views.

Fourteenth Amendment- Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection

Fifteenth amendment- to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race

Scalawag- In United States history, scalawag was a moniker for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War. Scalawags formed a winning coalition with freedmen (blacks who were former ...

Carpetbagger- people who moved to the south to take advantage of there hard times after the war.

Sharecropping-people who share farm land and the goods farmed

Muckraker- A muckraker seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public

settlement house- As settlement house residents learned more about their communities, they proposed changes in local government and lobbied for state and federal legislation on social and economic problems. Hull-House Maps and Papers (1895

Jane Adams- Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement.