| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| 13th Amendment | this amendment made slavery illegal, forever, in the United States |
| Freedmen's Bureau | agency established to help poor blacks and whites in the South |
| poll tax | money that people had to pay in order to vote |
| 14th Amendment | this amendment made black people citizens of the United States |
| sharecropping | a system of borrowing land and paying the owner for the use of land with a share of crops |
| 15th Amendment | this amendment states that all men have the right to vote |
| Black Codes | codes or rules that would limit the rights of black people in the South |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret society of white people who used scare tactics and intimidation to limit rights of blacks |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws created to keep blacks and whites in the South segregated |
| segregation | separation of people by color |
