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Reconstruction vocab
Question | Answer |
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Assassination | Murder of political or goverenment leader |
Reconstruction | Rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnshon | Became president after lincoln was killed |
13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
Black codes | laws made by the before the civil war to keep African Americans from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Gave african Americans men the right to vote no former confederate leaders could hold office or vote |
Freedmens Bureau | formed to help freed slaves.It build hospitals and schools |
Carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the south |
Scalawags | southers who supported Reconstruction |
14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protecion under the law |
15th Amendment | Gave all male citizens the right to vote |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officals by congres |
segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow laws | laws passed after Reconstuction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
granfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help changes easier |
involuntary servitude | Having to serve not by ones choice, slavery |
deprive | to remove or take away |
special privileges | immunties being allowed to do something others are not |
area of control | jurisdiction where one has influence |
abridge | to take away shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
Due process | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the rights of being a citzen to someone not born in the us |
obligation | a promise,contract,or sense of duty |