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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 |
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 US Congress |
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 and elected official in Congress |
segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from land owners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
grandfather clause | exception 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 one has influence |
abridge | to take away, shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due process |