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| reapportion | to redraw voting districts to ensure districts of equal population sizes |
| reconstruction | the period immediately after the Civil War when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union |
| relative location | describes where a place is compared to other places |
| revenue | a source of income |
| Ridge and Valley region | a physiographic region of Georgia that lies between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Appalactian Mountains |
| royal colony | a colony directly governed by the king |
| secession | the act of pulling out of the Union |
| segregate | to separate by race |
| separation of powers | a division of responsibilities for government among the three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) |
| service industry | an industry involved in providing services to people rather than products |
| sharecropping | an agricultural system common after the Civil War where landless farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house, farming tools and animals, seed, and fertilizer in retun for a share of the harvest |
| siege | a military action that occurs when forces try to capture a fortified fort or town by surrounding it and preventing any supplies from reaching it |
| sit-in | a type of demonstration where people enter a public building and refuse to leave until they served or their demands are met |
| slave state | a state that allowed slavery |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | an organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to work for civil rights for African Americans |
| sovereignty | the idea of supreme power or source of authority |
| special-purpose district | a form of local government created for a single job or single group of tasks |
| state's rights | the belief that a state's interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government |
| stretch out | a textile mill practice requiring workers to tend more machines |
| strike | a work stoppage in protest over some grievance |
