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reconstruction vocab

TermDefinition
Juneteenth June 19th day celebrated as the day Union General Gordon Granger issued the emancipation Proclamation freeing Texas slaves
Freedpeople Former slaves
Reconstruction Process of reuniting the US after the Civil War and rebuilding the southern states
13th Amendment Abolished Slavery
Andrew Johnson President after Lincoln's assassination
Suffrage Voting rights
Black Codes Laws passed by the South denying African Americans civil rights
Civil Rights Individual Rights guaranteed by the US constituion
Radical Republicans A Republican Party that believed the federal government needed to take a greater role in Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866 Act that gave citizenship to African Americans and guaranteed them basic rights
14th Amendment Guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to African Americans
Reconstruction Acts Series of federal laws passed beginning in 1867 that marked the beginning of Congressional Reconstruction
Edmund J. Davis Was a judge prior to the Civil War and became Govner of Texas
15th Amendment Gave suffrage to African Americans
Carpetbaggers Northerners who moved to the South after Civil War and carried all they owned in bags made of carpet
John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Scalawags Name given to southerners who supported reconstruction for personal economic gain
Ku Klux Klan Secret Society made after the Civil War that threatened and even murdered African Americans to keep them from expressing their political views
Impeach To bring charges against public official like the President
Freedmen's Bureau Organization created in 1865 that gave legal aid to freed-people
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