Reconstruction Vocabulary
1. Reconstruction
2. Carpetbagger
3. Freedman’s
Bureau
4. Servitude
5. Vocational
Education
6. Reconciliation/
Reconcile
7. Reunite
8. Segregation
9. Discrimination
10.
Amendment
The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate
states after the Civil War.
The name given to Northern whites who moved South after the
Civil War and supported the reconstruction Republicans
This was a government agency created after the Civil War that
helped former enslaved persons or “freemen”. The agency gave
the former slaves food, clothing and medical services.
Being subjected to another person and lacking freedom or personal
choice
Education that prepares you for a specific job or trade.
To restore (or bring back) a friendly relationship.
To come back together after a period of separation.
The separation or isolation of a race, class or group.
An unfair treatment of different categories of things (people).
Having favorites.
An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution