Unit 6 - Reconstruction Vocab

Jim Crow is...

• a famous jazz musician from the 1940s
• a style of dance popular in the 1920s
• a system of racial segregation and discrimination in the United States
• a type of bird found in the southern United States

These are the basic privileges in which every citizen of a nation should have.

• Civil Rights

• Citizenship

• Segregation

• Manifest Destiny

This is the idea that is was the right by god of Americans to move west

• Manifest Spirit

• Rights

• Manifest Destiny

• of course

An "immigrant" is...

• A person who is born in a foreign country
• A person who travels frequently for work
• A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
• A person who never leaves their home country

This office was set up by the government to provide education and other resources to Black Americans after the Civil War

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Emancipation Bureau
• Union Bureau
• Confederate Bureau

This term means to change or alter the Constitution

• Revolution
• Destruction
• Amendment
• Reconstruction

The purposeful separation of people based on race

• Equality
• Integration
• Segregation

• Diversity

The era after the Civil War in which the nation tried to build itself back together

• Destruction era
• Reconstruction era
• Reformation era
• Separation era

To be an official member of a nation and enjoy the privileges it includes

• immigration
• residency
• naturalization
• citizenship

This can include the ability to vote, own land without a husband, and have control over their own bodies...

• Property rights
• Human rights
• Women's Rights

• Animal rights