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Reconstruction Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assassination | Murderof a political ot government leader |
| Reconsruction | rebuilding or 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. |
| Freedman's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It builds 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. (included African Americans) |
| Impeachment | Charges of wrong doing 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 one has influence. |
| Abridge | To take away, shorten. |
| Insurrection. | Rebellion against your own country. |
| Due procces | All the steps taken 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. |