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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Assassination | Murder of 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 the US Congress |
Freedman's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and schools |
Carpetbagger | People who came from the north to help make businesses in the South |
Scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstucion |
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 (including African Americans) |
Impeachment | Charges of wrong doing by an elected officials by Congress |
Segregation | Seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
Sharecropping | Renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
Grandfather Clause | Exceptions 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 not allowed to do something others are not |
Area of Control | Jurisdiction, where one has influence |
Abridge | To take away, shorten |
Insurrection |