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Reconstruction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assassination | Murder of a political or government leader |
| Recunstruction | 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 |
| Freedmens 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 recunstruction |
| 14th | gave African Americans citizenship and the right to equal protection |
| 15th | gave all male citizens the right to vote |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by Congress |
| segragation | seperation |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after Reconstruction that enforced segragation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of the crop |
| Grandfather Clause |