| A | B |
|---|
sectionalism,  | loyality to a section or state instead of the entire country |
| popular sovereignty | allowing people in a territory to decide on the slavery issue |
| fugitive | slave who has run away from their owner |
| Civil War | war between people in the same country (North vs South) |
| proslavery | in favor of slavery |
| antislavery | opposed or against slavery |
| Confederacy | alliance formed by 11 southern states for a common purpose or goal |
| emancipate | to set free |
| total war | war where the army destroys anything useful to the enemy |
| freedman | a freed slave after the Civil War |
| amendment | added to the Constitution to change existing policy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's announcement that freed all slaves in the Confederate states |
| segregation | forced separation of people of different races |
| black codes | laws that limited the rights of freedmen |
| scalawags | white southerners who helped the Radical Republicans with Reconstruction |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved south to help with Reconstruction |
| poll tax | money paid by a voter (usually a freedman) in order to vote |
| literacy test | reading test used by the southern states to prevent freedmen from voting |
| grandfather clause | law that excludes some people from voting |
| "Separate but Equal" | forced separation of people in public places based on spearate facilities are equal |
| 13th Amendment | freed all slaves in 1865 |
| 14th Amendment | all freed slaves became citizens plus "equal protection clause" |
| 15th Amendment | Male freedmen got the right to vote |
