| A | B |
|---|
| border state | a state between the North and South that allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union |
| Emancipation Proclamation | the Presidental order of 1863 that freed enslaved people in the Confederate States |
| Gettysburg Address | a short speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of a Gettysburg cemetery |
| assassination | the murder of a political leader such as a President |
| sharecropping | a system of working the land in which the worker was paid with a "share" of the crop |
| Reconstruction | a time of rebuilding the country after the Civil War |
| scalawag | a person who supports something for his or her own good |
| carpetbagger | a Northerner who went South after the Civil War to help with Reconstruction or to make money through buying land or opening businesses |
| segregation | separation |
