Reconstruction and Civil Rights Concepts

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the period following the Civil War when Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the Union

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Reconstruction

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an unfair difference in the treatment of people

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discrimination

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an emancipated enslaved person

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Freedman

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laws passed by southern states that legally established segregation

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Jim Crow Laws

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a government agency that provided formerly enslaved people and others in Virginia with food, clothing, medical care, housing, and education

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Freedmen's Bureau

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a tax that had to be paid before a citizen could vote

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Poll Tax

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the separation of people, usually based on race or religion

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segregation

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an unfair system of renting land to tenant farmers, who paid the landowner rent that was a share of the crop.

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Sharecropping

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a person who owns land, especially a large amount of land

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Landowner

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the action of becoming larger

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expansion