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Chapter 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction

0. Chapter 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Freedmen's Bureau : . 0. A government agency created in 1865 that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in the South . Jim Crow : . 0. laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans .

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Chapter 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction

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  1. 0 Chapter 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction

  2. Freedmen's Bureau: 0 A government agency created in 1865 that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in the South

  3. Jim Crow: 0 • laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans

  4. Reconstruction: 0 • the federal government's program of rebuilding the American South after the Civil War

  5. assassination: 0 • The murder of an important leader.

  6. border states: 0 • Slaveholding states that bordered the free states and did not secede during the Civil War.

  7. camp: 0 • a place where people live for a time in tents, cabins, or other rough shelters.

  8. casualties 0 • soldiers or civilians injured or killed in a war

  9. civilian 0 • Person who is not in the military.

  10. desert: 0 •  to leave the army without permission.

  11. draft: 0 • system requiring men to serve in the military

  12. emancipation: 0 •  The freeing of enslaved peoples.

  13. impeach: 0 • Charge a government official with a crime or misdemeanor

  14. primary source 0 • firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period

  15. secondary source 0 • information that comes from someone who wasn't actually there

  16. home front: • All the people in a country who are not in the military during wartime.

  17. segregation: • The separation or practice of keeping people or groups apart.

  18. sharecropping • a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop.

  19. telegraph: •  a machine that sends electric signals over wires. • total war: a strategy in which everything soldiers can use is destroyed by the enemy so civilians will tire of the war

  20. total war • a strategy in which everything soldiers can use is destroyed by the enemy so civilians will tire of the war

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