| A | B |
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| Reconstruction | Federal government's effort between 1865 and 1877 to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore southern states to the Union. |
| Black Codes | Laws that restricted freedmen's rights. |
| Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery in 1865. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Guaranteed citizens equal protection of the laws in 1868. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Guaranteed African Americans voting rights in 1870. |
| Civil rights | Citizens' personal liberties guaranteed by law. |
| Impeach | Charge a public official with wrongdoing in office. |
| Infrastructure | The public property and services that a society uses. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement in which the Democrats agreed to give Rutherford B. Hayes the victory in the presidential election of 1876 and Hayes, in return, agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from southern states. |
| Segregation | forced separation. |
| Freedman’s Bureau | Provides services for war refugees and newly freed people. |
| Integration | Process of bringing together of different races. |
| Racism | Belief that differences in character or intelligence are due to one's race and that asserts the superiority of one race over another or others. |
| Prejudice | unreasonable, usually unfavorable opinion of another group. |
| Discrimination | Unequal treatment of a group of people because of their nationality, race, sex or religion. |
