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Reconstruction Vocab
Term | Definition |
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assassination | murder of a political or government leader |
reconstruction | rebuilding and healing the country after the war |
Andrew Jonson | 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 |
Freedmen's Bureau | Formed to help free slaves. It build 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 |
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 clause | exceptions put in laws to make changes easier |
involuntary servitude | having to serve but not owns own choice, slavery |
deprive | to remove or take away |
special privileges | immunities, being aloud to do something others are not |