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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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assassination | Murder of a political or government |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country |
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 leaders could hold office or vote. |
freedman's bureau | formed to help slaves. It built hospitals and schools. |
carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start a business in the south |
scalawags | Southerners who supported reconstruction |
14th amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law |
15th amendment | Gave all men the right to vote (included African Americans) |
impeachment | chargers of wrong doing by elected officials by congress |
segregation | separation |
Jim crow laws | laws passed after reconstruction that enforced segregation |
sharecropping | renting a land from land owners and paying rent with portion of the crop |
grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
involuntary servitude | having to serve not by ones choice,slavery |
deprive | to remove or take away |
special privileges | immunities, being allowed to do something others are not |
area of control | jurisdiction where one has influence |
abridge | to take away,Shorten |
insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
due processes | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
obligation | a promise,contract,or sense of duty |