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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 |
| black codes | laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African American from having rights |
| reconstruction Act of 1867 | gave African American men the right to vote |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Former to help freed slaves |
| carpetbagger | people who came from the North to start businesses in the South |
| scalawags | Southerners who supported reconstruction |
| 14 Amendment | Gave African American citizenship and the Right to equal protection under the law |
| 15 Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
| segrgation | separtion |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segation |
| sharecropping | renting land from land owners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
| grandfather clause | |
| involuntary ser |