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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
Reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
Andrew Johnson | became president after Lincoln was killed |
Black Codes | 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 Reconstruction |
inpeachment | 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 |