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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 Afican American men the right to vote.No former confederate leaders could hold office or vote.Made by Congress |
Freedmen's Bureau | Form to help freed slaves.It build hospitals and schools |
Carpetbaggers | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
Scalawags | Southerns who suppoted Reconstuction |
14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protectionunder the law |
15th Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (including Africans Americans) |
Impeachment Officials | chrages of wrongdoing by an elected by Congress |
Segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstuction that enforced segergation |
Sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent |
Grandfather Claws | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
Involuntary Servitude | having to serve not by ones's owns choice, slavery |
Deprive | to remove or taken 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 | 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 sence of duty |