| A | B |
|---|
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Abraham Lincoln. |
| Reconstruction | was the time period when the South was rebuilt and the nation was reunited that lasted from 1865-1877 |
| South | had a food shortage, homeless refugees, unemployment, no established governments, and lay in ruins after the Civil War. |
| assassinated | it happened to Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre |
| Ulysses S. Grant | was a war hero who won the presidential election of 1868. |
| black codes | were laws used by southern states to control African Americans. |
| Andrew Johnson | took over as President after the death of Abraham Lincoln. |
| rights | African Americans lost these after Reconstruction |
