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reconstruction
Term | Definition |
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assassination | a murder of a political or government |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
13th amendment | abolished slavery |
black codes | laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights |
reconstruction act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote. No former confederate leader could vote or hold office. Made by U.S. government |
Freedmen's Bureau | formed to help freed slaves |
carpetbagger | people who came from the north to start businesses in the south |
scalawags | southerners who supported reconstruction |
14th amenndment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right for equal protection under the law. |
15th amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote |
impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected official by congress. |
segregation | seperation |
Jim Crow laws | laws passed during reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of crop |
grandfather clause | exceptions |