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soc st vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impeachment | To bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official. |
| Jim Crow Law | Law that enforced segregation |
| Segregation | separation of whites and blacks in public places |
| Amnesty | Official pardon |
| 13th amendment | Made slavery illegal in the US. |
| 14th amendment | Granted citizenship to all people born in the US. |
| 15th amendment | Gave black men the right to vote. |
| Black codes | Law that limited the freedom of blacks |
| Reconstruction | Readmitting the former confederate states to the union. |
| Sharecroppers | Where someone owns the land but hired someone else to work on it. |