| A | B |
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| Sharecropping | The system of renting land for share of the crop raised on the land. |
| Thirteen Amendment | Abolishes slavery. |
| Blockade | To block off. |
| Codes | Southern laws that described the rights and duties of freed African Americans. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The announcement that ended slavery in the Confederacy. |
| Segregation | The separation of white people and black people. |
| Draft | The selection of men who have to serve in the military. |
| Gettysburg Address | A famous speech by President Lincoln. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Gives all male citizens of the United States the right to vote, regardless of race. |
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding the South. |
| Anaconda Plan | The Union's plan for victory in the Civil War. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | An agency established by Congress to help African Americans after the Civil War. |
| Civil War | The war between the Southern states and the Northern states. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Makes African Americans citizens of the United States and guarantees them the same legal rights as whites. |
| Impeach | To charge a government official with wrongdoing. |
| Total War | An all-out war to destroy people's ability and will to fight. |
| Civilian | A person not in the armed forces. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that made discrimination against African Americans legal. |
