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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. |
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 American men the right to vote. No former Confederate leaders could hold office or vote. Made by US Congress. |
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. |
!5th Amendment | Gave all male citizens the right to vote including African Americans. |
Impeachment | Charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by congress. |
Segragation | 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 |