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Reconstruction
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Reconstruction | rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
segregation | separation of people based on racial, ethnic or other differences |
poll tax | citizens had to pay a tax in order to vote |
Jim Crow Laws | laws that forced the separation of blacks from whites |
freedmen | men and women who had been slaves |
Black Codes | Southern laws that limited the rights of African Americans |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery (got rid of) |
14th Amendment | gave citizenship to all freedmen born in the United States |
15th Amendment | right to vote for ALL males citizens |
scalawags | Southern whites who supported Reconstruction |
carpetbaggers | northerners who went to the South to work and make money |
sharecropping | Southern landowners rented a farm to freedmen and took their crops as payment |
discrimination | acting differently toward a group of people |