| A | B |
| Reconstruction | a time of rebuilding after the Civil War |
| sharecropping | working the land and getting paid with a share of the crop |
| scalawag | a person who supports something for gain |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner who went to the South to make money |
| segregation | separation |
| Freedman's Bureau | helped former slaves with food and education |
| Black Codes | laws that limited the rights of former slaves |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that allowed segregation of races |
| 13th Amendment | ended slavery |
| 14th Amendment | gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S. |
| 15h Amendment | gave African Americans the right to vote |
| discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice |