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5.4.2 Civil War
5.4.2 Civil War and Reconstruction Part 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emancipation | the freeing of a group from slavery |
| Juneteenth | the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans learned they were free after the Civil War |
| Assassinate | to murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons |
| Reconstruction | the period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War |
| Amendment | a change or improvement |
| Impeachment | the process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime |
| Confederacy | together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America |
| Segregation | the division of groups of people by race |
| Black Codes | a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, own guns, or take certain jobs |
| Sharecropping | a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else “rent” the land to farm it |