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Reconstruction vocab
Reconstruction voca
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assaassination | murder of a political or government leader |
| reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| 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 Americans men the right to vote no former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by congress. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It build hospitals and schools. |
| carpthe etbagger | people who came from the North to start a business. |
| Scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction |
| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right yo equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | gave all male citizens the right to vote including african americans |
| impeachment | charging of wrongdoing by an elected officials by congress |
| segregation | separation |
| Jim crow laws | laws passed after reconstruction that enforced segreation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners |