AML Vocab

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Racism definition

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Prejudice against people of a different origin

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Prologue definition

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A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.

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Inference: conclusion about a story element based on textual evidence and personal reasoning.

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Inference is based on textual evidence and a person's reasoning.

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Definition of desegregation?

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the legal end of racial segregation

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FORTITUDE is shown by not giving up on challenges.

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True

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Sharecropping:

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Land is rented to a farmer who pledges a percentage of crops to the landowner.

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Tenant framers were only African Americans.

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False

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Best contemporary definition of "scalawag":

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a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction

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CARPETBAGGER: Northerner in the South for Reconstruction

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Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government.

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Composure means

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calmness of mind, matter, or appearance.