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Reconstruction Era: Challenges and Opportunities

The Reconstruction era following the Civil War brought a tumultuous period of rebuilding and reshaping American society. Discover the adversities and advancements faced during this critical time, from the impact of Black Codes to the struggles of sharecroppers. Learn about the pivotal roles of carpetbaggers, homesteaders, and scalawags in shaping a new nation. Explore the disparities and regal aspirations that pervaded the stagnant social fabric. Uncover the benignant hope within the conglomeration of diverse voices striving for regrowth in a once-divided land.

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Reconstruction Era: Challenges and Opportunities

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  1. Vocabulary #15

  2. adversary (n) an enemy; foe ad = to ver= true

  3. benign (adj) mild; harmless ben(e) = good

  4. conglomeration (n) mixture; collection con = together tion= act or state

  5. disparity (n) difference in form, character, or degree dis = away par = equal

  6. fallacious (adj) misleading ous= full of

  7. haughty (adj) proud and disdainful

  8. insipid (adj) uninteresting; bland in = in or not

  9. morose (adj) moody; despondent mort = death

  10. pervade (v) to occupy the whole of per = through

  11. regal (adj) royal; grand reg= rule

  12. stagnant (adj) motionless; uncirculating sta= stop gno= know

  13. urbane (adj) cultured; suave urb= city

  14. black codes/Jim Crow laws (n) laws put in place in the South with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks

  15. carpetbaggers (n) northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to gain money and political power

  16. homesteader (n) a farmer who is given a plot of public land in return for cultivating it

  17. reconstruction (n) [restoration and] rebuilding [of seceded states to Union]

  18. reservation (n) land set aside by the government for Native Americans

  19. scalawags (n) white southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War

  20. sharecropper (n) tenant farmer

  21. subsidy (n) money or other things of value that a government contributes to an enterprise (business)

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