| A | B |
| segretation | separating people based on race |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery in the US |
| Emancipation Proclamation | abolished slavery in the Confederacy |
| 14th amendment | granted citizenship to former slaves |
| 15th amendment | gave voting rights to African American males |
| Carpetbagger | northerner who came to the south during Reconstruction to make money |
| Salawag | southerner who worked with carpetbaggers or supported freed slaves |
| sharecropping | where you rent land from someone else and pay them by giving them part of your crop |
| Freedman's Bureau | built hospitals, schools, gave food and supplies to freed slaves |
| KKK | tried to keep African Americans from gaining rights and freedoms |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws that made segregation legal |