Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877.
The legal state of being homeless or jobless, used as a pretext by Southern police to arrest freedmen and force them into unpaid labour.
Vagrancy appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Making of America (1789–1900), especially Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–1877 and Reconstruction.
The Making of America (1789–1900)
Reconstruction
The Elizabethans (1580–1603)
Theatres
Crime and Punishment (c.1250–Present)
Changing nature of crime
Crime and Punishment (c.1250–Present)
Change overview
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Crime and Punishment (c.1250–Present)
Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 • Changing nature of crime
