| A | B |
|---|
| border states | These states were between the North and South and they allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union during the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | President Lincoln's order to fee the slaves |
| Gettysburg Address | A short speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of a Gettysburg cemetery |
| assassination | the murder of a political leader |
| sharecropping | a system of working the land, in which the worker was paid with a "share" of the crop |
| Reconstruction | time of rebuilding after the Civil War |
| scalawags | people who support something for their own gain |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the south to try to help with Reconstruction or to make money buying land or opening businesses |
| segregation | the seperation of black people and white people |
| West Virginia | this state was formed out of a slave state by people who were against slavery and wanted to stay in the Union |
| Vicksburg | This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi |
| Thirteenth Amendment | This Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | This organization helped to educate newly freed slaves |
| black codes | these laws limited the freedom of African Americans |
| Clara Barton | She helped sick and wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War |
| William T. Sherman | He led Union soldiers through Georgia on the March to the Sea |
| Andrew Johnson | He became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
