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Units 11 and 12: Civil War and Reconstruction

Units 11 and 12: Civil War and Reconstruction. Civil War. a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country . sectionalism. an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region. validity. executed with the proper legal authority. nullification.

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Units 11 and 12: Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. Units 11 and 12: Civil War and Reconstruction

  2. Civil War a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

  3. sectionalism an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region

  4. validity executed with the proper legal authority

  5. nullification the action of a state attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the United States

  6. bias a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment :prejudice

  7. States’ rights all rights not given to the federal government

  8. habeas corpus any of several common-law written documents issued to bring a party before a court or judge

  9. compromise Agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants

  10. conflict competitive or opposing action of incompatibles

  11. tariff Tax on imports or exports

  12. region a geographic area with similar features

  13. provisions the act or process of providing

  14. constitutionality In accordance with the provisions of a constitution

  15. emancipation The act ofsetting free from restraint

  16. nationalism loyalty and devotion to a nation

  17. reconstruction the act of rebuilding

  18. radical reconstruction associated with political views

  19. scalawag A white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain

  20. civil rights the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially: the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress

  21. Jim Crow Laws Law that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South between 1877 and the 1950s.

  22. carpetbagger a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments

  23. Freedmen former slaves who have been released from slavery

  24. black codes laws passed by Southern state legislatures to define the legal place of blacks in society after the Civil War. No black or freedman shall be permitted [allowed] to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances… --- from a Black Code in Opelousas, Louisiana

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