| A | B |
|---|
| sharecropping | the system of renting land for a share of the crop raised on the land. |
| 13th Amendment | abolishes slavery |
| blockade | to block off |
| black codes | Southern laws that described the rights and duties of freed African Americans. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | the announcement that ended slavery in the Confederacy. |
| segregation | the seperation of blacks and whites |
| Ku Klux Klan | a group of Southerners formed to frighten and control African Americans and their white supporters. |
| Gettysberg Address | a famous speech by President Lincoln |
| 15th Amendment | gave all male citizens the right to vote. |
| Reocnstruction | rebuilding of the south |
| Anaconda Plan | Union's plan for victory in the Civil War. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | an agency established by Congress to help African Americans after the Civil War |
| Civil War | the war between the Southern states and the Northern states. |
| 14th Amendment | makes African Americans citizens of the United States and guarantees them the same legal rights as whites. |
| impeach | to charge a government official with wrongdoing |
| total war | an all out war to destroy people's ability and will to fight. |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that made discrimination against African Americans legal |
