| A | B |
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| sharecropping | the system of renting land for a share of the crop raised on the land |
| thirteenth amendment | abolishes slavery |
| blockade | to block off |
| black codes | Southern laws that described the rights and duties of treed African Americans |
| Emancipation Proclamation | the announcement that ended slavery in the Confederacy |
| segregation | the separation of white people and black people |
| Ku Klux Klan | a goup of Southerners formed to frighten and control African Americans and their white supporters |
| Gettysburg Address | a famous speech by President Lincoln |
| 15th Amendment | gives all make citizens of the U.S. the right to vote, regardless of face |
| reconstruction | rebuilding the South |
| Anaconda Plan | the Union's plan for victory in the Civil War |
| Freeman's Bureau | an agency established by Congress to help African Americans after the Civil War |
| Civil War | the war between the Southern states and the Northern states |
| 14th amendment | makes African Americans citizens of the U.S. and guarantees them the same legal rights as whites |
| impeach | to charge a government official with wrongdoing |
| total was | an all-out war to destroy people's ability and will to fight |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that made discrimination against African Americans legal |
