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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 |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African Americans men the right to vote.No former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by U.S Congress. |
black codes | Laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights. |
Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitals and schools. |
carpetbagger | People who came from the North to start businesses in the South. |
scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction. |
14th Amendment | Gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law. |
15th Amendment | gave all Male citizens the right to vote |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
segregation | separation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop. |
grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier. |
involuntary servitude | having to serve not by one's own choice,slavery. |
deprive | to remove or take away |
special privileges | immunities,being allowed to do something others are not. |
area of control | jurisdiction, where on has influence |
abridge | to take away, shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due process | all the steps taken to to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise,contract or sense of duty. |