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1 The Reconstruction Era
Chapter 23 Vocabulary

2 Reconstruction

3 Reconstruction The period after the Civil War when the federal government ruled the southern states in order to rebuild them and allow them back into the Union

4 freedmen

5 freedmen

6 freedmen

7 freedmen African Americans who had been set free from slavery

8 Freedmen’s Bureau

9 Freedmen’s Bureau

10 Freedmen’s Bureau

11 Freedmen’s Bureau

12 Freedmen’s Bureau Created by Congress in March 1865 to assist Southern blacks and whites in the transition from a society based on slavery to one allowing freedom.

13 civil rights

14 civil rights

15 civil rights

16 civil rights The rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law.

17 scalawags

18 scalawags

19 Scalawags (Civil War definition)
White southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War

20 Scalawags (traditional definition)
A child who causes trouble but not in a serious way A person (usually young) who causes trouble

21 carpetbaggers

22 carpetbaggers

23 carpetbaggers Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to get rich and seize political power

24 Jim Crow

25 Jim Crow Was a black character performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface in the mid-1800’s It was a caricature of African Americans It was meant to make fun of Andrew Jackson’s policies

26 Jim Crow Laws

27 Jim Crow Laws

28 Jim Crow Laws

29 Jim Crow Laws

30 Jim Crow Laws Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.


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