Equitable - the quality of being fair and impartial (affecting all equally), Sharecropping - a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land., Assassination - murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons, Black Codes - states passed, that severely limited the rights of Black people, Freedmen’s Bureau - provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans., Military Districts - formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which are responsible for a certain area of territory., Radical - took control after Lincoln's death, punished Confederate leaders and southerners for the Civil War, Dawes Act - broke up Indian reservation into sections for Indians to own, Homestead Act - gave free federal land west of the Mississippi, Carpetbaggers - a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction., Morrill Act - gave stated federal land to finance agricultural colleges,

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