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Reconstruction vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assassination | Murder of political or goverenment leader |
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| Andrew Johnshon | Became president after lincoln was killed |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
| Black codes | laws made by the before the civil war to keep African Americans from having rights |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Gave african Americans men the right to vote no former confederate leaders could hold office or vote |
| Freedmens 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 | southers who supported Reconstruction |
| 14th Amendment | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protecion under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Gave all male citizens the right to vote |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officals by congres |
| segregation | seperation |
| Jim Crow laws | laws passed after Reconstuction that enforced segregation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
| granfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help changes easier |
| involuntary servitude | Having to serve not by ones choice, slavery |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunties being allowed to do something others are not |
| area of control | jurisdiction where one has influence |
| abridge | to take away 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 citzen to someone not born in the us |
| obligation | a promise,contract,or sense of duty |