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Reconstruction vocab
Term | Definition |
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Assassination | Murder of a political or government leader |
Recunstruction | Rebuilding 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 U.S Congress |
Freedmens 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 recunstruction |
14th | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection |
15th | gave all male citizens the right to vote |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
segragation | seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segragation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
Grandfather Clause |