Glossary

Public Policy

laws that address social problems and issues such as public health, criminal justice, and education.

Pupil placement laws

Laws used in Southern states to avoid desegregation by assigning individual students to the schools deemed appropriate for them and requiring a long and complicated process to request transfer to a different school.

Pupil placement laws

laws used in Southern states to avoid desegregation by assigning individual students to the schools deemed appropriate for them and requiring a long and complicated process to request transfer to a different school.

Reconstruction

The period after the Civil War ended when the United States worked to integrate newly-freed African Americans as full citizens.

Reconstruction Amendments

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution that addressed questions related to the legal and political status of African Americans. They were adopted between 1865-1870.

Reconstruction Amendments:

The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution that addressed questions related to the legal and political status of African Americans. They were adopted between 1865-1870.

Red Scare

refers to the widespread fear of communism in the United States that occurred in the 1920s (in response to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917) and in the 1950s (in response to the Cold War)

remedies

Legal methods of enforcing or correcting a contract.

Repealed

To revoke or annul a law or act of congress.

Revolutionary War

Also known as the American Revolution, a conflict between Great Britain and their American colonies over independence.