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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 |
13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote.No former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by us Congress. |
Freedmen Bureau | Formed to help slaves. It build 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 (included African Americans) |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
segregation | sepration |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with aportion of the crop |