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Reconstruction
Social Studies Reconstruction 1865-77
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ku Klux Klan | was an organization that used violence to intimidate blacks and take away their rights. |
| Freedman’s Bureau | The organization that was set up to HELP African Americans that were newly freed. This federal agency helped former slaves by providing food, clothing, education and healthcare |
| 15th Amendment | insured the right to vote to all males no matter what race |
| impeach | means to bring charges against a public official which sometimes leads to removal from office |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to US born regardless of race |
| assassination | The murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons |
| carpetbagger | A northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction to make money off others’ misfortune |
| segregation | The separation of people because of race. Jim Crow Laws made this legal. |
| sharecropping | where former slaves and poor whites were allowed to farm a portion of the landowners’ land and were paid a portion of the crops |
| Reconstruction | The twelve year period that followed the Civil War that focused on rebuilding and reuniting the country was known as |
| Black Codes | A set of laws passed to restrict the rights of freedmen |
| scalawags | southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War |
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