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7th Ringcard 62-75
Ringcard Vocab 62-75
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln shortly after Civil War. |
| Freedman (freeman) | freed slaves. |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery. |
| Reconstruction | effort to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union. |
| Black Codes | laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by southern government after civil war. |
| 14th Amendment | guarantees citizenship and rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States. |
| 15th Amendment | guarantees the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race. |
| Radical Republican | Republicans who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction. |
| Impeach | bring charges against to remove a president from office. |
| Scalawag | white Southerner who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War. |
| Carpetbagger | Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government. |
| Compulsory | required. |
| Juneteenth (June 19) | a celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. |