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Reconstrution Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
| Reconstrution | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| Andrew Johnson | became president after Licoln was killed |
| 13th Amendent | 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 | Southerns who supported Reconstrution |
| 14th Amendent | gave African Americans citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | gave ALL male cizitens the right to vote ( included African Americans) |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress. |
| segregation | separation |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstrution that enforced segregation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with portion of the crop |
| grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
| involuntary servitude | having to sevre not by one's own choice, slavery |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunties, being allowed to do something others are not |
| area of control | jurisdiction, where one has influence |
| abridge | to take away, shorten |
| insurrection | rebellion againist your own country |
| due process | all the steps taken to presevre the rights of citizens |
| naturaliation | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the U.S |
| obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |