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The Reconstruction Era
Chapter 23 Vocabulary
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Reconstruction
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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
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freedmen
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freedmen
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freedmen
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freedmen African Americans who had been set free from slavery
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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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.
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civil rights
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civil rights
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civil rights
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civil rights The rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution to all people as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law.
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scalawags
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scalawags
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Scalawags (Civil War definition)
White southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War
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Scalawags (traditional definition)
A child who causes trouble but not in a serious way A person (usually young) who causes trouble
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carpetbaggers
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carpetbaggers
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carpetbaggers Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to get rich and seize political power
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Jim Crow
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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
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.
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