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CH 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 13th amendment | banned slavery |
| 14th amendment | granted people born in us citizenship |
| 15th amendment | let all citizens vote |
| segregation | to separate the races |
| carpetbagger | nickname for northerner who went south during reconstruction in hopes of getting rich |
| sharecropper | farmer who worked on land owned by another person |
| reconstruction | period after civil war when the south was rebuilt |
| Radical Reconstruction | divided south int 5 military districts |
| jim crow laws | laws that required segregation |
| civil war amendments | 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments |