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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 Act of 1867 | gave African Americans men the right to vote.No former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by U.S Congress. |
| black codes | Laws made by the south before the Civil War to keep African Americans from having rights. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It built hospitals and schools. |
| carpetbagger | People who came from the North to start businesses in the South. |
| scalawags | Southerners who supported Reconstruction. |
| 14th Amendment | Gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection under the law. |
| 15th Amendment | gave all Male citizens the right to vote |
| 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 | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier. |
| involuntary servitude | having to serve not by one's own choice,slavery. |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunities,being allowed to do something others are not. |
| area of control | jurisdiction, where on has influence |
| abridge | to take away, shorten |
| insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
| due process | all the steps taken to to preserve the rights of citizens |
| naturalization | to give the rights of being a citizen to someone not born in the US |
| obligation | a promise,contract or sense of duty. |