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Texas History Unit 7
Civil War & Reconstruction (chapters 16 - 17) Currently only 17
Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | the effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union |
pardon | an official release from punishment for a crime |
provisional government | a temporary government |
nullify | to cancel |
Juneteenth | June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas |
freedman | a formerly enslaved person |
demonstrate | to show, prove, or make clear |
black codes | laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War |
restrict | to place a limit on a person or an action |
Radical Republican | a republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction |
Ku Klux Klan | a secret organization of white man formed after the civil War that uses violence against African Americans |
carpetbagger | a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction governement |
compulsory | required |
scalawag | a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction |