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Reconstruction vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assassination | murder of a political of or a government leader |
| reconstuction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| Andrew Johnson | Became president after Lincoln was killed |
| 13 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 Americans men the right to vote .No former leader Confederate could hold office or vote. Made by US Congress. |
| Freedoms Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and schools. |
| Carpetbagger | People who came from the North to start businesses in the south. |
| scalawags | Southerners who supported reconstruction. |
| 14 Amendment | Gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law. |
| 15 Amendment | gave all male citizens the right to vote included African Americans. |
| impeached | charges of wrongdoing by elected officials by Congress |
| segregation | seperation |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
| grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
| involuntary servitude | having to serve not by one's own choice slavery |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunities being allowed to do something others are not |
| area of controll | jurisdiction where one has influence |