| A | B |
| Fourteenth Amendment | granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed them equal protection under the law |
| Fifteenth Amendment | ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude |
| Freedmen's Bureau | In 1865 this organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves |
| Thirteenth Amendment | banned slavery in the United States and any of its territories |
| Reconstruction | the time period followig the Civil War in which Southern states were brought back into the Union |
| Chisholm Trail | the first cattle trail from the Red River in northern Texas to Abilene. |
| The Great Western Cattle Trail | The cattle trail that took cattle to northern territories |
| sharecroppers | a landowner gave workers supplies and a place to live |