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 |