Chapter 17 Vocabulary- Reconstruction

Reconstruction

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
• To cancel
• political system in which power is shared between a national centralized government and a collection of smaller state governments
• To end; to stop doing an action.

Pardon

• An offical release from punishment for a crime.
• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
• government in which representatives are chosen
• independent power given to the people

Provisional government

• A temporary government

• June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.

• Income

Nullify

• To cancel
• June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
• An offical release from punishment for a crime.
• personal liberties and freedoms

Juneteenth

• June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
• A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
• A temporary government
• government in which representatives are chosen

Freedman

• a formerly enslaved person
• To place a limit on a person or action.
• To cancel
• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.

Demonstrate

• To show, prove or make clear.
• A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
• June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.
• An offical release from punishment for a crime.

Black codes

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil war.
• To show, prove or make clear.
• a formerly enslaved person
• A temporary government

Restrict

• To place a limit on a person or action.
• To show, prove or make clear.
• To show, prove or make clear.
• To cancel

Radical Republican

• A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
• To end; to stop doing an action.
• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil war.
• June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.