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reconstruction vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
| 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 leaders could hold office or vote. Made by US Congress. |
| Freedman's 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 |
| 14th Admendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law |
| 15th Admendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote. |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
| Segregation | separation. |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segregation. |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |