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reconstruction vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assasination | 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 up 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). |
| Freedman'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 |
| 15th Amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote! (EVEN AFRICAN AMERICANS) |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing 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 cause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
| involutary servitude | having to serve not by one's choice, slavery |
| deprive | to remove or take away |
| special privileges | immunities, be able to do something that others are not |
| area of control | jurisdiction, where one has influence |
| abridge | to take away or 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 citizen to someone not born in the U.S. |
| obliglation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |