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Recinstruction vocab
Question | Answer |
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assassanation | murder of apolitical or government leader |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Abraham 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 1887 | gave African American men the right to vote no former confederate leaders could hold office or vote made by US Congress |
Freedman'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 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 | separartion |
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 ones own choice, slavery |
deprive | remove or take away |
special privlieges | 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 | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the us |
obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |