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Reconstruction Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |