| A | B |
|---|
| border states | states between the north and the south |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order by Lincoln freeing the slaves |
| Gettysburg Address | a short speech given by Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery |
| assassination | the murder of a political leader |
| share cropping | a system of working the land, in which the worker was paid with a portion of the crop. |
| Reconstruction | the time of rebuilding after the Civil War |
| scalawags | people who supported something for their own gain |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the south to try to hep with reconstruction ot to make money buying land or opening businesses |
| segregation | separation of black people and white people |
