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Reconstruction
Mrs. Newman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to charge a government official with a crime | impeach |
| provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites | Freedmen's Bureau |
| when landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land in return for a share of the crop | sharecropping |
| laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans | Jim Crow laws |
| the forced separation of the races | segregation |
| crossing a continent | transcontinental |
| an unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment | prejudice |
| a settler's home and land | homestead |
| an African American settler who called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the Bible. | Exoduster |
| a long period with little or no rain. | drought |
| name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, in order to farm. | sodbuster |