| A | B |
|---|
| 13th Amendment | banned slavery |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to former slaves |
| 15th Amendment | gave former slaves the right to vote |
| Abe Lincoln | "preservation of the Union is more important than punishing the south" |
| Robert E. Lee | urged Southerners to reunite with the North after the war |
| Frederick Douglass | worked for the passage of voting rights amendments |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | African Americans gained equal rights as a result of this |
| Freedmen's Bureau | organized to help all needy people in the South, but Slaves was it's main concern |
| sharecropping | landowners paid workers in shares of crops rather than in cash |
| carpetbaggers | businessmen from the North who came to the South to take part Reconstruction governments |
| Southern Military Leaders | they could not hold office after the civil war |
| black codes | rights that African Americans gained were lost through these |
