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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 U.S Congress |
Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help freed slaves. It builds hospitals and schools |
Carpetbaggers | People who came from the North to start business 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 (include African Americans) |
Impeachment | Charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
Segregation | Separation |
Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed after Reconstitution that enforced segregation |
Sharecropping | Renting land from landowners and paying rent with 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 contry |
Due process | All the steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
Naturalization | To give the rights of begin a citizen to someone not born in the US |
Obligation | A promise, contract, or sense of duty |