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history ch 17
american history ch 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding |
| Amnesty | a pardon |
| radical | extreme |
| freedmen | former enslaved persons |
| black codes | laws passed in the south just after the Civil was aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers. |
| override | to defeat |
| 14th Amendment | Granted full citezenship to all individuals born in the U.S. |
| impeach | formally charge with wrongdoing |
| 15th Amendment | Prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right vote to any male citizen because of the race. |
| scalawags | scoundrel |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners that arrived with their belongings in cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric. |
| corruption | dishonest or illegal actions. |
| integrated | include both whites and African Americans. |
| sharecropping | the common form of farm work |
| reconciliation | coming together again |
| commission | a group that reviewed the election results. |
| cash crops | crops that could be sold for money |
| poll tax | a fee that people had to pay before voting |
| literacy test | they had to read and explain difficult parts of state constututions or the federal constitution |
| grandfather clauses | if your grandfather voted so could you. |
| segregation | the separation of the races. |
| lynching | an angry mob kills a person. |