| A | B |
|---|
| Robert E. Lee | Became President of Washington College |
| Abraham Lincoln | Believed preserving the Union was more important than punishing the South. |
| Fredrick Douglass | Powerful speaker (orator) of civil liberties for all. |
| Black Codes | Southern states limited the freedoms of former slaves. |
| Freedman's Bureau | Helped former slaves and others displaced by the war by providing jobs, homes, and schooling |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who took advantage of the South during Reconstruction. |
| 13th Amendment | Banned slavery in the U.S. |
| 14th Amendment | All persons born in the U.S. are citizens with the right to life, liberty, and property. |
| 15th Amendment | Gave all male (black/white) citizens the right to vote |
| Hawaii, Alaska | Non-contiguous states |
| Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma | Southwest Region States |
| Equator | Imaginary line that divides the Earth North to South |
| Prime Meridian | Imaginary line that divides the Earth East to West |
| KKK | Hate group formed under Jim Crow Laws after Reconstruction. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Rights given to African Americans after the Civil War established by federal law and enforced by federal troops. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws meant to limit the freedoms of African Americans in the South. |
| Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and the Grandfather Clause | Methods used to keep black men from voting. |
| Booker T Washington | Born a slave in Virginia, felt as if vocational education would eventually gain acceptance for blacks in society. |
| WEB DuBois | Believed in full equality for African Americans immediately. |
| NAACP | Organization created by DuBois |
