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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Assassination | The murder of a political or government leader |
Reconstruction | Re-building and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | Became president after Lincoln was killed |
13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
Black codes | Laws made by the South before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Gave African American men the right to vote. no former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by the US Congress |
Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and school |
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 | Separation |
Jim crow laws | Laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
Sharecropping | Renting land from landowners an paying rent with a portion of the corp |
Grandfather clause | Exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
Involuntary servitude | Having to serve not by one's own choice, slavery |