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RECONSTRUCTION
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 | gave African American men the right to vote. Of 1867 |
Freedmen’s Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and schools. |
carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
scalawags | |
14th Amendment | |
15th Amendment | |
impeachment | |
segregation | |
Jim Crow Laws | |
sharecropping | |
grandfather clause | |
involuntary servitude | |
deprive |