| A | B |
|---|
| staple | bread, water, something you eat & need to survive |
| impact | how it affects you |
| curfew | when you have to be inside at a certain time |
| statutes | laws, rules |
| redistribution | to spread out again. give again |
| 19th Century | 1801 - 1899 |
| African Americans | people living in the United States - who originally came from Africa, or their ancestors did |
| agrarian | farming |
| ban/ banned/ to ban | to stop/ prevent |
| black suffrage | African Americans getting the RIGHT TO VOTE |
| cash crop | something you grow to sell & make money off of |
| cavalry | soldiers on horses |
| citizenship | people who live in the United States legally |
| civil liberties | freedom of speech, religion, right to own property, to vote |
| civil rights | another term for CIVIL LIBERTIES |
| colored folks | it referred to African Americans in the 1800s |
| commerce | trade, business |
| Congress | the US Senate & House of Representatives |
| constitutional | something which follows American laws - in the US Constitution |
| constitutional convention | people meet to make changes to the US Constitution |
| constitutional principle | something follows what's in the US Constitution |
| crop rotation | you have a farm & plant things in different parts of each year |
| domestic | at home |
| due process | you get a fair shake - trial |
| equal protection | everyone is treated the same way |
| ethnocentrism | you judge others by your own standards - your's is the best |
| Federal Government | the government of the United States - Washington, D.C. |
| Federal Relief Agency | a US Government group that helps people - there can many different types |
| foreign | from another country/nation |
| grandfather clause | you don't have to follow a law/something - because you have done it too long before the law - exempt |
| industrial growth | businesses growing |
| infrastructure | services for the people; water, sewage, electricity, communications: telephone, fire & police depts. |
| jurisdiction | you control an area |
| literacy test | Jim Crow laws: you have to prove you can read & write |
| lynch/lynching | to go after someone, kill them, hurt them |
| metropolis | a large city; New York & the towns/cities that surround it |
| militant | military - stubborn |
| military occupation | soldiers in an area telling other people what to do |
| moderate | middle of the road - not extreme |
| orphaned | children without parents |
| pardon | to excuse |
| passage | 2 meanings: going by ship across the ocean, something you read |
| plantation | a LARGE farm |
| pocket veto | the President ignores a BILL, so it does NOT become a law |
| policy | the way something is done |
| political equality | being on the same field as someone - a fair election |
| poor whites | white people in the South after the Civil War |
| preside | to watch over, make sure everyone follows the rules |
| public facilities | things everyone uses when in town; bathrooms |
| race riots | people fighting, looting, smashing things because of a person's color |
| racism / racist | to hate someone - you want them dead |
| Radical Repulicans | saw Reconstruction as an opportunity to change Southern society - guarantee black equality |
| raid | to go after & take something - usually done in secret |
| segregation | to split people apart based on color |
| seizure | to take |
| separate but equal | a form of discrimination late 1800s/early 1900s - separate schools |
| servitude | slavery |
| social change | to make changes/adjustments in public - adjust things/cause them to be different |
| stereotype | to make a general statement & apply it to all people/ to assume something |
| subordinate | below someone, of a lesser rank |
| subsidy/subsidize/subsidies | to give people money - to make up the difference |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| symbolize | something means stands for something - the American Eagle - a trademark |
| system of checks & balances | deals with the Government - 3 branches - no branch is stronger than the other |
| tariff | a tax on goods coming into a country - make people buy American (from your own country) |
| unconstitutional | illegal - to go against the US Constitution |
| universal suffrage | everyone has the right to vote |
| women's suffrage | women have the right to vote |
| landless | people who are thrown off their farmland - don't own any land |
