Reconstruction - The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War., The GOAL of Reconstruction - Create legal equality for free and formerly enslaved African Americans., oppression - To hurt, harm, bully, mistreatment, discriminate, or treat someone in a cruel or unfair way., enslaved - A person who is the property of another person and forced to obey him or her., democracy - Citizens have the power of electing people to represent them in government., ballot - The way people mark their vote- often on paper., citizenship - Being a member of a particular country and having rights because of it, poll tax - States required voters to pay an amount of money before they could vote., literacy test - Given to keep Black Americans from voting by asking questions that were designed for them to fail., discrimination - An unfair treatment of different categories of things (people). Having favorites., segregation  - The separation or isolation of a race, class or group., Disenfranchise - To deny someone the right to vote., Sharecropping - Farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a portion of the crops & fees to the owner., Jim Crow Laws - Jim Crow Laws Laws that legalized and required segregation based on race.,

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