| A | B |
|---|
| black codes | kept African Americans from living in certain places and holding jobs |
| Emancipation Proclamation | granted freedom to slaves |
| Fugitive Slave Law | required police to capture escaping slaves in free states |
| Dred Scott Decision | said that slaves were property |
| Missouri Compromise | divided the U.S. into free states and slave states |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Jim Crow Laws | segregated blacks and whites |
| Freedmen's Bureau | found jobs, homes, and education for former slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| abolitionists | wanted to end slavery in the U.S. |
| Underground Railroad | helped slaves escape to freedom |
| blockade | the closing of an area to keep people or suppplies out |
| total war | an all-out war to destroy people's ability and will to fight |
| secede | to break away from a group |
| segragation | the separation of people |
| sharecropping | rented farm land by promising to pay the owner a share of the crop |
| Abraham Lincoln | wrote the Gettysburg Address |
| Reconstruction | the period following the Civil War |
| impeach | to charge a government official of wrong doing |
| Robert E. Lee | commander of the Confederate Army |
