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reconstruction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| assanation | 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 and made the African Americans from having rights |
| REconstruction arts of 1867 | gave the african american men the right to vote no former confederate could hold office or vote |
| Freedmans bureau | formed to help freed slaves it build hospitals and schools |
| carpetbagger | people who came from the north to the south |
| scalawags | southerners who supported reconsruction |
| 14th ammendment | gave all people citizenship |
| 15th ammendmant | gave all black men the right to vote |
| impeachment | charges of wrong doing by an elected officials by congress |
| segregation | seperation |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws passed after reconsruction that enforced segragation |
| sharecropping | renting land from landowners and paying rent with a portion of crop |
| grandfather clause | exceptions put in laws to help make changes easier |
| involuntary servitude | having to serve not by ones owns 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 infulence |
| abridge | to take away, shorten |
| insurrection | rebellion against your own country |
| due process | all steps taken to preserve the rights of citizens |
| naturalization | to give rights of being a citizen to someone not born in US |
| obligation | a promise, contract, or sense of duty |