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SS8 Unit 1 Reconst
Reconstruction Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Political | Relating to the government or the public affairs of a country. |
| Economic | Relating to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services associated with money. |
| Social | Relating to society as a collective group of people or its organization |
| Reconstruction | Period of U.S history after the Civil War that focused on rebuilding the nation |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A government agency set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education |
| Black Codes | Laws in southern states designed to continue white supremacy by restricting the rights of African Americans. |
| Equity | the quality of being fair and impartial. |
| 13th Amendment | An 1865 amendment to the US Constitution that abolishes slavery and forced labor. |
| 14th Amendment | An 1868 amendment to the US Constitution that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans |
| 15th Amendment | An 1870 amendment to the US Constitution that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
| Sharecropping | A system in which landowners provide the land and seed in exchange for a portion of their crops they grow. Most ended up in lifelong cycle of poverty. |
| Poll tax | A fee collected in order to cast a vote. |
| Justice | Fair behavior or treatment. |
| Labor | Referring to work, especially hard physical work. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A terrorist group of white southerners who discriminated against African Americans by using violence. |