1. Bitter hostility: animosity
2. Period of rebuilding: reconstruction
3. bring charges against a public officer who is in office: impeach
4. person who appears to have no work or permanent home: vagrant
5. serious downturn in the economoy: depression
6. pardon granted to a large group of individuals: amnesty
7. a worker on someone elses property: tenant farmer
8. accusations spread deliberately to further a cause or damage an opposing cause: propaganda
9. money: capital
10. name given to northerners who came to the south after the war: carpetbagger
11. prejudicial treatment: discrimination
12: name given to southern whites who cooperated with blacks and republicans: scalawags
