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Recinstruction vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assassanation | murder of apolitical or government leader |
| reconstruction | rebuilding and healing a country after war |
| Andrew Johnson | became president after Abraham 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 1887 | 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 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 law |
| 15th amendment | gave ALL male citizens the right to vote (included African Americans) |
| impeachment | charges of wrongdoing by an elected officials by congress |
| segregation | separartion |
| 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 ones own choice, slavery |
| deprive | remove or take away |
| special privlieges | 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 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 us |
| obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |