emancipation - being set free, reconstruction - time of rebuilding after Civil War, New South - time when the South shifted from agriculture to industry, amendment - a change to the U. S. Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation - document written by Abraham Lincoln to end slavery, Jim Crow Laws - state and local laws that legalized racial discrimination, black codes - rules that limited black freedoms, segregation - separation of the races, black face - use of make-up by a white person to make them appear as a black person, minstrel show - a group of white entertainers who blackened their faces to perform, Birth of a Nation - A silent film in 1915 that supported the formation of the KKK, 13th Amendment - abolished slavery, disenfranchisement - taking away the right to vote, 15th Amendment - gave black men the right to vote, vigilante - person who takes the law into their own hands, 14th Amendment - gave citizens equal protection of the law, freedmen - slaves who had been legally freed, sensationalize - to present information to excite people even if it is not accurate, poll tax - money charged that allowed a person to vote, segregationist - a person who believes in separation of the races,

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