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History ch. 17
American history chapter 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | various plans for accomplishing and rebuilding |
| amnesty | pardon |
| radical | extreme |
| freedmen | former enslaved people |
| THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT | abolished slavery |
| black codes | aimed to control former enslaved people |
| override | defeat |
| FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT | granted full citizenship to all people born in the U.S. |
| impeach | formally charge with wrongdoing |
| FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT | prohibited the state and federal government from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of race |
| scalawags | scoundrels |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South and put all their belongings into a cheap bag made of carpet fabric |
| corruption | dishonest or illegal actions |
| integrated | include both whites and African Americans |
| sharecropping | common form of farm work |
| reconciliation | coming together again |
| Commission | group |
| cash crops | crops that could be sold for money |
| poll tax | tax that needed to be paid in order to vote |
| literacy test | you needed to know how to read and write in order to vote |
| grandfather clauses | if your grandfather could vote, you can too! |
| segregation | separation of races |
| lynching | a mob killing a particular person |