| A | B |
|---|
| segregation | separation (blacks from white) |
| carpet baggers | Northerners who moved to the South to make money during Reconstruction |
| scalawags | people who support something for their own gain |
| Reconstruction | time of rebuilding |
| sharecropping | landowner paid workers in shares crops |
| Freedmen's Bureau | organization created by Congress to help freed slaves |
| assassination | murder of a political leader |
| March to the Sea | General Sherman's army's march |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's dedication speech |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's order freeing the slaves |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's Assassinator |
| 13th amendment | Freed Slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln |
| impeach | to remove from office |
| 14th amendment | gave former slaves rights as citizens |
| 15th amendment | no citizen could be prevented from voting due to his race |
| KKK Ku Klux Klan | secret group formed to keep freed slaves from having rights |
| Trends | Patterns of change over time |
| Slave codes | Laws that shaped the day to day life of slaves |
| Overseers | Hired people by owners to watch over slaves |
| Spirituals | Religious songs based on Bible stories |
| Resist | Act against |
| Underground Railroad | System of escape routes leading to freedom |
| Free state | Did not allow slavery |
| Slave state | Allowed slavery |
| Confederacy | New country formed by states seceding |
