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reconstruction vocab
Term | Definition |
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assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
13 amendment | abolished slavery |
black codes | laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African American from having rights |
reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote |
Freedmen's Bureau | Former to help freed slaves |
carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
scalawags | Southerners who supported reconstruction |
14 Amendment | Gave African American citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law |
15 Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
segrgation | separtion |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segation |
sharecropping | renting land from land owners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
grandfather clause | |
involuntary ser |