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Reconstruction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
| reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
| 13 amendment | abolished slavery |
| reconstruction of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote no former confederate could hold office or vote maybe by u.s congress |
| freedman's bureau | formed to help freed slaves it built hospitals and schools |
| carpetbagger | people who came from the north to start business in the south |
| scalawags | southerners who supported reconstruction |
| 14th amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under law |
| 15th amendment | gave all male citizens the right to vote (including African Americans) |
| 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 |
| grandfather clause | expectations put laws to help make changes easier |
| involuntary servitude | having to serve not by ones own choice, slavery |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunities being allowed to do something others can not |
| area of control | jurisdiction where one influences |
| abridge | to take away or shorten |
| insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
| due process | all the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
| naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone born in the u.s |
| obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |